Analysis Of Amy Cudd's Article 'Fake It'

Two minutes could change how you feel and think?
Social Psychologist, Amy Cuddy in her article, Fake it till you make it, claims If you do certain postures for 2 minutes they can change how you think and feel. She supports her claim by first showing graphs of how a person’s hormones were affected by their posture. Then in Part II 07:24 of Amy Cuddy’s speech she says “There's some evidence that they [our non verbals] do [change the way we see ourselves]. So, for example, we smile when we feel happy, but also, when we're forced to smile by holding a pen in our teeth like this, it makes us feel happy. So it goes both ways. When it comes to power, it also goes both ways.” Additionally Amy Cuddy says "For two minutes," you say, "I want you to stand like
We decided to bring people into the lab and run a little experiment, and these people adopted, for two minutes, either high-power poses or low-power poses, and I'm just going to show you five of the poses, although they took on only two. So here's one. A couple more.” And finally Amy Cuddy shares one of her personal experience that a student of hers did the postures and faked it till she became it: “ She comes back to me months later, and I realized that she had not just faked it till she made it, she had actually faked it till she became it. So she had changed. And so I want to say to you, don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it. Do it enough until you actually become it and internalize.” Amy Cuddy’s purpose is to inform about postures that can change how you feel and think. She establishes