[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_dropcap]S[/fusion_dropcap]ocial scientists have spent a lot of time looking at the effects of our body language, or how to read body language of other people.

According to American social psychologist, Amy Cuddy,  known for her research on stereotyping and discrimination, and the effects of social stimuli on hormone levels, body language judgments can predict who we hire or promote and even who we ask out on a date.

“Fake it ’til you become it.” – Amy Cuddy

 

Nalini Ambady, a researcher at Tufts University, found that when people watch 30-second soundless clips of real physician-patient interactions, their judgments of the physician’s niceness predict whether or not that physician will be sued. This proved that it’s not whether or not that physician was incompetent, but do we like that person and how they interacted?

Did you know that in one second political candidates can lose races?

According to research done by Alex Todorov at Princeton, judgments of political candidates’ faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes.

When we think of non-verbals, we think of how we judge others and  how they judge us.

However, we forget that our own non-verbal communication, like posture, can influence ourselves and the trajectory we have in life.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]