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confidence
Standing tall makes you believe your own thoughts more.
A 2009 study found that participants who maintained an upright posture reported more confidence in their own written thoughts.
Your body's physical orientation acts as a meta-cognitive cue, signaling to the brain that your current state is stable and trustworthy.
Your posture is an argument you make to your own brain.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Brinol et al., 2009, European Journal of Social Psychology
- What the check found
- The study by Briñol, Petty, and Wagner (2009) is a seminal paper in the field of self-validation and correctly identifies that posture acts as a metacognitive cue for confidence in generated thoughts.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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