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Power posing does not affect hormones or financial risk taking

Despite wide spread media coverage of an earlier study showing that “power poses” influence hormones and risk taking, a new study using a much larger sample finds no such relationships.

Associate Professor Anna Dreber Almenberg and Professor Magnus Johannesson at Stockholm School of Economics are two of the co-authors in the new study that was led by Dr Eva Ranehill of the Department of Economics at the University of Zürich. 

Read more about the study (in Swedish).

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