Body Language of Power — What High-Status People Do Differently

You are broadcasting your status before you say a single word. Before you introduce yourself, before you speak, before you smile or extend a hand — your body has already communicated volumes about how you expect to be received. The research on nonverbal communication and perceived status is unambiguous: humans make rapid, largely accurate assessments of social status from body language, and those assessments shape subsequent interactions in powerful ways.