I think some refined version of Amy Cuddy's power pose stuff will get vindicated at some point. My spidey sense tells me there's a there there. The stats police kinda won round 1 on procedural grounds rather than persuasive falsification of the intuition with an alt theory
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Replying to @vgr
You don't really need an "alt theory" when there's no data to explain do you?
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Replying to @ZakDavid
That's a bad heuristic. General relativity was a example of a theory that showed where to look for data. Here there is suggestive evidence in the form of social dominance displays etc. It's natural behavior and must be good for something.
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Replying to @vgr
General relativity was one way to explain a lot of existing phenomena though. Then alternates were ruled out through the parameterized post-newtonian formalism. Power posing is a cause looking for an effect
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Replying to @ZakDavid
Only the precession of mercury orbit iirc. The rest were predictions. I'd say power posing is a normative version of a natural behavior that needs a better account. And note, one effect (felt power) *was* replicated
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Replying to @vgr
So then the question is, what other things can or can't produce the same "effect"? Jumping jacks? Push ups? Swearing in a pillow? To me, the whole genesis of power posing is pretty lazy as scientific inquiry goes.
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Replying to @ZakDavid
See responses to visakan. I think you're ignoring the importance of dominance displays in social animals. Your list is random spaghetti-on-wall hypothesizing. There's better intuitions available to follow here.
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Replying to @vgr
Maybe. :) I doubt it though. The original physiological claims are gone. So all we're left with is evolutionary psych scrabblebabble
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You're thinking too much with the 'map' of mathematical model rather than the territory of biological phenomena. Go look at the monkey cage in a zoo some day, not just plots and r-square stuff
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Replying to @ZakDavid
That's a power-pose tweet! See you did it instinctively, even if jokingly. What posture do you think you'd have adopted irl for the word "bro" if we were chatting face to face?
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