“We should be able to attend and respond to others, but focusing on them too much isn’t just counterproductive, it’s also destructive, undermining our self-confidence and interfering with our ability to notice what’s being exchanged in the moment. Even in the imagined power pose condition, people were able to fully inhabit the moment – noticing without judging their environment, feeling neither threatened by nor dominant over the strangers coming in and out of the room.”
