Business News Daily, January 17, 2012, Tuesday

Business News Daily

January 17, 2012, Tuesday

Business News Daily (full article)

Power Makes People Feel Taller

This is the first research showing there is a physical experience that comes with being powerful, said Jack Goncalo, associate professor of organizational behavior at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. "Although a great deal of research has shown that physically imposing individuals are more likely to acquire power, this work is the first to show that the powerful may actually feel taller than they are," Goncalo writes in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science.