Presence Amy Cuddy Body Language
Lexi Theroux
16 October 2017
Professor Higgins
English 101- 49
Presence
Amy Cuddy’s book, Presence, examines the relationship between body language and emotions, more specifically power. After reading chapter six of Presence, readers will gain insight on what non-verbal cues translate to observers and how to position themselves when trying to be deemed as dominant. Cuddy employs the help of scientists, uses examples of the animal kingdom, incorporates anecdotes and provides historical context to illustrate that body language is telling of emotions across cultures and species. Cuddy ultimately proves that body language can reveal our internal feelings by externally communicating them through movement and position, thus showing ourselves how we feel.
Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist which lends to the reliability of her work. The audience is likely intended to be educated, familiar with evolution and science, at a high school grade level or higher and have an interest in body language, the sciences or …show more content…
Using research from a combing effort between Cuddy’s team and biologist, Nikolaus Troje, who runs the BioMotion Lab at Queen's University in Ontario, they researched what it looks like to be a “powerful walker” and “powerless walker” (154). They asked one-hundred people to rate one-hundred moving figures on how powerful or powerless they looked. The powerful walker is represented by dots that are spread farther apart. The powerless walker is represented by dots that are close in proximity and narrow looking. Power is exhibited through movement, and the movements communicate to oneself how dominant they are at that moment. Cuddy provides a picture of the figures in the article which allows the audience to vividly see the difference between the two. This creates proof of the erect posture and expanded chest and limbs that have been mentioned throughout the chapter therefore providing validity to the previous
16 October 2017
Professor Higgins
English 101- 49
Presence
Amy Cuddy’s book, Presence, examines the relationship between body language and emotions, more specifically power. After reading chapter six of Presence, readers will gain insight on what non-verbal cues translate to observers and how to position themselves when trying to be deemed as dominant. Cuddy employs the help of scientists, uses examples of the animal kingdom, incorporates anecdotes and provides historical context to illustrate that body language is telling of emotions across cultures and species. Cuddy ultimately proves that body language can reveal our internal feelings by externally communicating them through movement and position, thus showing ourselves how we feel.
Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist which lends to the reliability of her work. The audience is likely intended to be educated, familiar with evolution and science, at a high school grade level or higher and have an interest in body language, the sciences or …show more content…
Using research from a combing effort between Cuddy’s team and biologist, Nikolaus Troje, who runs the BioMotion Lab at Queen's University in Ontario, they researched what it looks like to be a “powerful walker” and “powerless walker” (154). They asked one-hundred people to rate one-hundred moving figures on how powerful or powerless they looked. The powerful walker is represented by dots that are spread farther apart. The powerless walker is represented by dots that are close in proximity and narrow looking. Power is exhibited through movement, and the movements communicate to oneself how dominant they are at that moment. Cuddy provides a picture of the figures in the article which allows the audience to vividly see the difference between the two. This creates proof of the erect posture and expanded chest and limbs that have been mentioned throughout the chapter therefore providing validity to the previous