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From the Ted Talk by Amy Cuddy: Your body language may shape who you are

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But the next question, of course, is, can power posing for a few minutes really change your life in meaningful ways? This is in the lab, it's this little task, it's just a couple of minutes. Where can you actually apply this? Which we cared about, of course. And so we think where you want to use this is evaluative soittnuais, like social threat situations. Where are you being evaaeultd, either by your friends? For teenagers, it's at the lunchroom table. For some peploe it's speaking at a school board meeting. It might be giving a pctih or giving a talk like this or doing a job inretveiw. We decided that the one that most people could relate to because most people had been through, was the job interview.

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But the next question, of course, is, can power posing for a few minutes really change your life in meaningful ways? This is in the lab, it's this little task, it's just a couple of minutes. Where can you actually apply this? Which we cared about, of course. And so we think where you want to use this is evaluative __________, like social threat situations. Where are you being _________, either by your friends? For teenagers, it's at the lunchroom table. For some ______ it's speaking at a school board meeting. It might be giving a _____ or giving a talk like this or doing a job _________. We decided that the one that most people could relate to because most people had been through, was the job interview.

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  1. people
  2. interview
  3. evaluated
  4. pitch
  5. situations

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But the next question, of course, is, can power posing for a few minutes really change your life in meaningful ways? This is in the lab, it's this little task, it's just a couple of minutes. Where can you actually apply this? Which we cared about, of course. And so we think where you want to use this is evaluative situations, like social threat situations. Where are you being evaluated, either by your friends? For teenagers, it's at the lunchroom table. For some people it's speaking at a school board meeting. It might be giving a pitch or giving a talk like this or doing a job interview. We decided that the one that most people could relate to because most people had been through, was the job interview.

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