Does holding a pose change your hormones?
Eva Ranehill and colleagues · Assessing the Robustness of Power Posing, Psychological Science 26 · 2015
D · Failed replication
A preregistered replication with 200 participants found the reported effect of expansive posture on risk tolerance, sense of power, and testosterone did not appear. A later meta-analysis found the felt-power effect small and the hormonal effect absent. What survives is narrow: some people report feeling slightly more powerful.
ProbeBefore adopting a bodily technique, ask which measured outcome it changes and whether that measurement replicated.