Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Head Height Matters
Recent televised discussions about whether it is okay for candidates to stand on boxes behind the podiums during presidential debates, or not acceptable for them to do so, has made top-of-mind research on the importance of having the heads of everyone participating in a conversation at approximately the same height above the ground. By the way, debaters have been standing on risers (the technical name for a box that someone is standing on) for a very long time, and there are behind the scenes images from past presidential candidate debates to confirm that. Research indicates that how we think about others is directly related to whether we’re physically looking up at them when we are talking to them, whether we’re literally looking down on them, or if we’re looking them square in the eye. The studies that have been conducted indicate, basically, that if we look down on someone physically, …
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