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Status Signals
nposed photographs give cues about who's powerful and who's not, psychologists have found. In a study at Northeastern University in Boston, Marianne Schmid Mast and Judith Hall took candid shots of 24 pairs of coworkers conversing. After cutting out the signs of their surroundings, they showed images of the workers (either separate or together) to 168 people and asked them to guess the rank of each. When the psychologists compared these hunches with the workers' own ratings of their status, they found a statistically significant correlation: Women who were perceived to be powerful tended to have a downward head tilt and lowered eyebrows in conversation, whereas the giveaway for high-ranking men was more formal dress.
70%
46% of 1,600 women surveyed said they tend to feel most beautiful when they achieve success. -- 2004 study sponsored by Dove
Personality Training
Weight training strengthens body image along with muscles, according to a study conducted at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Researchers Erica Depcik and Lavon Williams studied 30 women, ages 18 to 41, who scored high on tests of body-image disturbance and who had no weight-training experience. For 13 weeks, half the volunteers took a weight-training class for ...