How Your Posture Can Help You Feel Powerful at the Office

body languageWant to walk in the hallways at work like you own the place? Want a strut that says, “Look at me?”

Per a piece on Psychology Today, Thaima Lobel, Ph.D., says powerful individuals “stand up.” In fact, it’s been proven in studies that people who stand or sit in powerful poses and also expand in space are perceived as being more powerful.

Researchers from Columbia and Harvard University examined how powerful postures influence how powerful we end up feeling.

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