The secrets of body language
This kind of article doesn't address the issue known as Chesterton's fence [1]. If so-called "low power" poses are so bad for you, why have they survived evolution? Why do we have such strong ingrained impulses to assume them in the first place? "Experts" need to give a very, very convincing answer to this question before urging us to abandon such poses.<p>Anecdotally, I've often been with groups of engineers where <i>everyone</i> was assuming "low power" poses. The discussion seemed to flow more constructively in such circumstances; it was as though everyone admitted that they didn't know the right answers. They felt free to submit very rough ideas because everybody else was just as ignorant and not in a position to shoot them down. Enter a "confident" program manager, however, and the group quickly devolved into silence and/or banalities; everyone felt reluctant to express opinions that they didn't feel completely certain about.<p>[1] <a href="http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fence.html" rel="nofollow">http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2012/03/chesterton-fe...</a>