The next time you reach for your phone, consider this: your posture and mood may be ruined. According to Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy, people are more likely to slouch when they’re on their phone, and the physical act of slouching induces changes in peoples’ moods, memory and behavior.
“Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the iHunch,” writes Cuddy. Read the article here.
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