Much of what we call owning the room turns out to live in the audience: people form confident impressions of competence and dominance in about a tenth of a second, and the popular power-pose fix for commanding a room did not hold up

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     Much of what we call owning the room turns out to live in the audience: people form confident impressions of competence and dominance in about a tenth of a second, and the popular power-pose fix for commanding a room did not hold up

     The charisma you think you see in someone commanding a room is largely an illusion your brain creates in the first blink of an eye.