From: ABC News
Feeling Powerful Makes You Think You Are Taller Than You Are
January 19, 2012
ABC News:
Feeling powerful today? Then you probably think you are taller than you really are.
And if you feel a tad powerless, you probably feel like the runt of the litter.
In a provocative new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., participants in three experiments who were made to feel powerful estimated their own physical height significantly higher than it really was. And conversely, those made to feel less powerful thought they were shorter in stature than they actually were.
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