Amy Cuddy's TED talk, Your body language shapes who you are.

Amy Cuddy's TED talk focuses on how we can change the way we are presented to others as well as ourselves. The way we communicate to people causes them to judge us based upon these communications; they can be verbal or non-verbal. The talk focuses on the importance of our non-verbal communication and how we can change it. She also makes the point that we are influenced by our own non-verbal communications. Cuddy says we often change our body language to show either our dominance, by opening up and making ourselves bigger, or our powerlessness, wrapping ourselves up. It is seen too often be linked to gender, "women feel chronically less powerful then men". She says that our non-verbal govern how we think and feel about ourselves. The research that she conducted showed that after partaking in high power poses for 2 minutes, such as the "wonder woman", the candidates felt more confident and took more risks than the ones who were in low power poses for the same period of time. These poses can, eventually, cause us to change how confident we are in everyday situations, and even change our non-verbal communication permanently.