Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Your Body Language Shapes Who You AreThe Matt Townsend Show • Season 6, Episode 236, Segment 2

Oct 4, 2017 • 28m

Amy Cuddy, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, uses experimental methods to investigate how people judge and influence each other and themselves. She gave the second most popular TED Talk, entitled “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are.” Dr. Cuddy explains how our body language is an expression of what you are feeling and influences how others perceive you as a person.

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