![]() ![]() ![]() And hers seemed to embody a divide that had characterized her life in the last couple of years, a sense of two selves, one highly sensitive, the other more confident, even skilled in the art of conveying that confidence.Ĭuddy became famous in her field for a 2010 study about the effects of “power poses.” The study found that subjects who were directed to stand or sit in certain positions - legs astride, or feet up on a desk - reported stronger “feelings of power” after posing than they did before. That visual might have escaped me altogether, except that Cuddy, a social psychologist, is best known to the public for her work on body language. She was slightly hunched over, and yet her right arm, long and lean - she danced for many years - gesticulated freely and expressively, so that the contrast gave the impression of someone in a conflicted emotional state, someone both wanting to tell her story and unsure about doing so. As she talked about her life in recent years, my attention kept drifting to her left arm, which she had trapped underneath her right leg, which crossed the left. ![]() Cuddy was, at the time, officially on the faculty at Harvard Business School, but she was taking a temporary leave, her small box of an office filled with boxes. I first met Amy Cuddy in January, soon after she moved into a new office at the Harvard School of Public Health. ![]()
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