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- Title
To Strike a Pose: No Stereotype Backlash for Power Posing Women.
- Authors
Rennung, Miriam; Blum, Johannes; Göritz, Anja S.
- Abstract
Power posing, the adoption of open and powerful postures, has effects that parallel those of actual social power. This study explored the social evaluation of adopting powerful vs. powerless body postures in men and women regarding perceived warmth, competence, and the likelihood of eliciting admiration, envy, pity, and contempt. Previous findings suggest that the display of power by women may have side effects due to gender stereotyping, namely reduced warmth ratings and negative emotional reactions. An experiment (N D 2,473) asked participants to rate pictures of men and women who adopted high-power or low-power body postures. High-power posers were rated higher on competence, admiration, envy, and contempt compared to lowpower posers, whereas the opposite was true for pity. There was no impact of power posing on perceived warmth. Contrary to expectations, the poser's gender did not moderate any of the effects. These findings suggest that non-verbal displays of power do influence fundamental dimensions of social perception and their accompanying emotional reactions but result in comparably positive and negative evaluations for both genders.
- Subjects
POSTURE; POWER (Social sciences); PSYCHOLOGY of women; GENDER stereotypes; SOCIAL perception; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016, p1
- ISSN
1664-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01463