You Are What You Act (2018)

Directors

Albert Nerenberg

The story

thumb|left|110px|George Lakoff thumb|left|110px|Gabor Maté thumb|left|110px|Paul Ekman thumb|110px|Amy Cuddy The film explores a new field of science called embodied cognition, with some of the leading researchers in the field including George Lakoff, Gabor Maté, Paul Ekman, Philip Zimbardo, and Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy. The shorthand expression, "fake it till you make it", appears to ring true, though it can also backfire (people behaving overconfidently) and it also applies to undesirable outcomes (acting depressed and becoming depressed). A section of the film explores the "hack for love" as proposed by psychologist Robert…

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