From 2005 to 2006, Cuddy was an assistant professor of psychology at
Rutgers University. where she taught leadership in organizations in the MBA program and research methods in the doctoral program. In the spring of 2017,
The New York Times reported, "she quietly left her tenure-track job at Harvard",
Research Stereotypes In 2002, Cuddy co-authored the proposal of the
stereotype content model, with
Susan Fiske and
Peter Glick (Lawrence University). In 2007, the same authors proposed the "Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes" (BIAS) Map model. These models propose to explain how individuals make judgments of other people and groups within two core trait dimensions, warmth and competence, and to discern how these judgments shape and motivate our social emotions, intentions, and behaviors.
Power posing In 2010, Cuddy,
Dana Carney and Andy Yap published the results of an experiment on how nonverbal expressions of power (such as expansive, open, space-occupying postures) affect people's feelings, behaviors, and hormone levels. In particular, they claimed that adopting body postures associated with dominance and power ("power posing") for as little as two minutes can increase testosterone, decrease
cortisol, increase appetite for risk, and cause better performance in job interviews. This was widely reported in popular media.
David Brooks summarized the findings, "If you act powerfully, you will begin to think powerfully." Other researchers tried to replicate this experiment with a larger group of participants and a double-blind setup. The experimenters found that power posing increased subjective feelings of power, but did not affect hormones or actual risk tolerance. They published their results in
Psychological Science. Though Cuddy and others are continuing to carry out research into power posing, Carney has disavowed the original results. The theory is often cited as an example of the
replication crisis in psychology, in which initially seductive theories cannot be replicated in follow-up experiments. ==Publications==