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High Status/Alpha Body Language

Bookmark this microblog before reading on.  Interesting article (here) on status and body language.  The research shows, as you might expect, that taller people are perceived to be higher status.  It's also the case that posture affects one's perception of your status.  What is not surprising to me but might be surprising to some is this:Now, this doesn't mean that if you're short, you're SOL. Far from it, in fact. It means that, if you want to appear to have higher status, confidence, and nonverbal social cues, can go a long way. Throw your shoulders back, stand up straight, and point at things! Socially dominant cues and confidence may be able to make up for some...shortcomings. You'd think that people who are smaller or have less impressive physiques would pay more attention to learning body language that someone taller with a larger frame would?  And yet...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).