Amy Cuddy

Social psychologist and author

1972-07-23

Amy Cuddy is an American social psychologist, author, and speaker known for research and writing on nonverbal behavior and social perception.

Books by Amy Cuddy

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All changes have their melancholy
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All changes have their melancholy
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Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they're able to be present while pitching their ideas. It's about maintaining presence during big challenges - very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they're entrepreneurs or not.
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Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.
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Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.
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Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.
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It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.
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People judge you really quickly, at first just on your facial features. There are two dimensions - warmth and competence. You can think of them as trustworthiness and strength. They're first judging you on warmth; evaluating whether or not you are trustworthy. That's much more important to them than whether or not you're competent.
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