Is
there anything you can do to influence how people perceive you in terms of
perception and group interactions? It appears that the answer is “yes.” Gavin J. Kilduff of New York University and Adam D. Galinsky
of Columbia University, how you feel at the moment you join a new group has a
significant impact on your initial status among the members of the group as
well as your perceived status later on. Their findings suggest that whatever
your typical baseline mindset, you can achieve a perceived higher status by
increasing your happiness, eagerness, or sense of power just before you join a
group. Harvard Business review summarized it this way: people who were induced to feel happy (via
writing about a happy experience) were subsequently rated by their teammates in
a hypothetical snowstorm-survival task as having higher status (2.13 on a 1-to-7 scale) than those who hadn’t
been primed to feel happy (1.79);
similar effects were seen when people were primed to feel eager and powerful,
and the status perceptions lingered for days, probably because of the
reinforcing nature of group hierarchies. Studies have shown the positive
benefits to brain and body of maintaining a happy, positive mindset. Now it
appears that this impacts the way others perceive the person, as well.
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