YYou may have noticed it before: someone stands on his feet, the hands of the hips, the chest. Or maybe you did it yourself before interviewing a job or a major presentation. This is the “force that forms” – the idea that hitting the bold position can make you feel more confident and improve performance. But does it work?
The concept was launched in early 2010. Professor Ian Robertson of Trinity Dublin and author of the book “Some Studies” that showed whether you have expanded your body’s position, this will change your psychological state. ” How trust works. “Other studies have shown that it can change the levels of testosterone, which enhances the motivation.”
But science has since been cooled to claims. “The subsequent adolescents did not confirm this as a reliable effect,” explains Robertson.
However, something interesting appeared from more powerful studies. Although there is limited evidence that making yourself larger enhances confidence directly, there is strong evidence that making yourself smaller can have an opposite effect. The retreat in your seat, shoulders, or folding it in yourself can make you feel gone.
“If you are sitting in a meeting in a winning or coherent position, which makes yourself small, this affects all of your feelings and your performance. You are less likely to continue through difficult problems. Your mood is less and you feel less confident.”
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This clicks in a broader field of psychology called embodiment, which explores how situations and physical movements are closely related to emotional states. When we get angry, we expand. When we fear, we shrink. These physical responses are not just external signs of emotion – they may also feed on our brains, which enhances the same feelings.
Robertson says our emotional circles and physical expression circles are tightly wired. So, if you increase the position of feelings, you may start to feel it. “There is a reason because” your head is high “has long been emphasized in military training and ending schools.”
