Power Poses: Do They Work?
Thought to be held in high regard as a hack for interviews, public speaking, and...

Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: April 7, 2025
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. Introducing power posing
- 2. What are power poses?
- 3. What’s the evidence for power poses?
- 4. Why scientists started questioning power posing
- 5. Further blows for power posing evidence
- 6. So, what exactly do power poses offer for our confidence and self-perception?
- 7. What can ultimately be gained from the power pose?