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Adopting a power pose to boost your confidence can help your performance at work – but there are places where these poses could do more harm than good.

Power poses, such as standing with your hands on your hips and your legs apart to show confidence, are thought to effect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain and in turn boost a person's performance.

But Harvard psychologist Dr Amy Cuddy says there is one place at work where people should not adopt power poses - during meetings. These poses can make others divert their gaze away from a person, suggesting the person who looks away feels intimidated from the overt display of dominance made in a power pose, instead of recognising another person’s confidence.

Posted by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith in Discover.

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