Research Design Connection: Power Postures – Effects Tested
There has been some controversy recently regarding the effects of “power poses” on how people think. The implications of power poses are relevant to design because furniture, such as types of seats, can support siting in these sorts of postures. “Power poses” are often described as open and as expansive (relatively spread out/taking up a lot of room). Cuddy and her team, using sophisticated statistical techniques, reviewed the literature related to power posing and found “strong evidential value for postural-feedback (i.e., power posing) effects and particularly robust evidential value for effects on emotional and affective states (e.g., mood and evaluations, attitudes, and feelings about the self).” In summary: “an expansive posture…leads people to feel more powerful.” Amy Cuddy, S. Schultz, and Nathan Fosse. “P-Curving a More Comprehensive Body of Research on Postural Feedback Reveals Clear Evidential Value for Power-Posing Effects: Reply to Simmons and Simonsohn.” Psychological Science, in press, DOI: …
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