TED Talk Infographic Project

1. TED Talk: Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

  Website:  https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are

2. Outline:

  Introduction: Social scientists spend a lot of time finding that body language has significant effects on the way people judge someone else and others judge them. However, the most important point in the body language is that we are the audience of the body language. People always forget that they are influenced a lot by the body language.

   Body: A. Nonverbal experiences of power and dominance

When people have power, they arm up in the V and lift their chins slightly. They want to expand themselves. When people have no or little power, they wrap themselves up and make them small.

        B. Three questions

a. Can people pretend to participant in the events?

Yes. When people pretend to be powerful for two minutes, they will really get power.

b. Can our body influent our minds?

Yes. People who have power have higher testosterone and lower cortisol.

c. Can people have more significant future after being the same useful gesture for a short period of time?

Yes. Employers are more likely to hire people who have powerful gesture.

C. Amy Cuddy uses her personal experiences to indicate that if people can pretend to have power and try best to do, they will be successful in the end.

Conclusion: “Fake it till you become it.” Amy Cuddy is very willing to spread her knowledge out. She hopes people who have less power can finally get successful using her method.

3. Reasons

As content: This TED Talk can help many people to gain power to face the life. It can be a job interview, an exam and so on. I also get huge benefits from it. Actually, I really need it to help overcome my timid and powerless. When I am afraid of challenging myself. As for the organization of this TED Talk, Amy Cuddy combines experiments and personal experiences together. She also expresses her points in a very clear way. Audiences can be easy to follow her and convinced by her.

As infographic: In this lecture, Amy Cuddy lists many gestures people will do when they have power, and many gestures people will do when they have little power. Looking at the infographic, audiences can easily contract them. Amy Cuddy also talks about some experiments. Using infographic can make them much easier to be understood by audiences.