Expansive Posture and Cultures
Culture influences effect of expansive postures on perceptions of power.
Culture influences effect of expansive postures on perceptions of power.
Sitting in an expansive posture has previously been linked with feeling powerful.
Sanders probed the relationship between the arrangement of chairs in classrooms and student engagement.
Can the position of hospital room chairs affect a patient's perception of care?
Active seating, or sitting on something such as a stool without a back that seemed to require people to expend more energy while seated, has been seen as a way to make sitters healthier.
Seats in workplaces and other locations are often arranged to enhance eye contact.
Previous research has shown that when people sit in expansive postures they feel more powerful
Research on how we sit, whether with our backs straight or sprawled across a chair and ottoman, indicates that posture affects human behavior.
Knowledge workers sit too much.
Zhu and Argo have completed a preliminary analysis of the influence of various arrangements of chairs on the best ways to persuade people to take particular actions.