Summary for "Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are"

Body language, academically called “nonverbal language”, plays an important role in daily communication and also affects how people judge others. Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist, raises a view point that our nonverbal languages can alter our psychological status. Amy takes testosterone and cortisol experiment for example to illustrate this concept. Testosterone and cortisol are two hormones related to power. Powerful people show high testosterone but low cortisol. In the experiment, people change their gestures to pretend powerful for several minutes leads to increment in testosterone and decrements in cortisol. It is said that nonverbal language influences our mind. Moreover, Amy Cuddy shares her own experiences to reinforce her point of view and encourage the audience who want to change their lives.