Postural feedback effects on other feelings and behaviour

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Acknowledgements
Abstract
Résumé
Foreword
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
Chapter 1 Why adopting a body posture might affect the agent’s social perception and behaviour
1. Postural expansiveness as a social signal of power, dominance and status
2. How bodily actions affect social perception
2.1. Cognition is grounded in perceptual, motor and introspective experience
2.2. Cognition serves to control bodily action in specific contexts
2.3. Causal impact of bodily states on the perception of social signals
Chapter 2 A critical review of power posture effects on human cognition and behaviour
1. Initial findings on power posture effects on feelings of power, testosterone, cortisol, risk-taking and job interview performance
2. How robust are the initial power posture findings?
2.1. Non-replications of hormonal and risk-taking effects and the following debate on replicability
2.2. Non-replications of power posture effects on job interview performance
2.3. A small but possibly robust postural feedback effect on feelings of power
3. Postural feedback effects on other feelings and behaviour
3.1. Explicit mood and self-esteem
3.2. Implicit indicators of changes in mood and attitudes
3.3. Self-evaluation and self-concept
3.4. Physical strength and pain tolerance
3.5. Social behaviour
3.6. Abstract, logical and creative thinking
4. Postural feedback effects are context dependent
5. Disentangling true from false effects and possible reasons for the replicability debate
Chapter 3 Power posture effects on social perception and behaviour: The research questions and methodological approach of the present thesis
1. Objectives and research questions
2. General methodological approach
2.1. Posture manipulation
2.2. Faces as social signals
2.3. Varying the focus of attention
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
Chapter 4 Does your body affect what you see? No power posture effects on explicit recognition of threat-related facial expressions
Chapter 5 Assessing physiological mechanisms: Repeatedly adopting power postures does not affect hormonal correlates of dominance and affiliative behaviour
Chapter 6 Does your body affect your mental images? Facing a controversy: Assessing the robustness of power posture effects on mental representations of faces
Chapter 7 Does your body affect your actions? Power posture effects on approach and avoidance actions under social threat
GENERAL DISCUSSION
Chapter 8 Do power postures influence social perception and behaviour?
1. Summary of findings
2. Potential determinants of posture effects on social perception and behaviour
2.1. Posture effects may only occur when social signals are processed implicitly or when faces are entirely unattended
2.2. Posture effects may only occur in the presence of actual action opportunities
3. Setting my studies in context: A critical discussion of the research on power postures
3.1. Contextual meaning influences bodily feedback effects
3.2. Determinants of postural feedback effects neglected in the review and meta-analysis of research on power postures
4. A personal note on the current replicability debate
5. Final conclusions
References
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