A few years ago there was a TED Talk and a lot of excitement about ‘power poses‘; how standing in a particular way before a meeting or talk might make you feel more confident and improve your performance.

Now one of the idea’s researchers says they don’t work.  The experiments were flawed, the sample size was small and they didn’t look at the results properly.

Link to article on on the story

http://fortune.com/2016/10/02/power-poses-research-false/

Link to researcher’s statement PDF

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/dana_carney/pdf_My%20position%20on%20power%20poses.pdf

Here’s the talk.  Looks like we should ignore it.