Hi everybody and welcome to my still very new YouTube channel.
I am Thea and today I will tell you how style can empower you and you will learn
how to find the items in your wardrobe that will help you feel empowered in
important situations. This is the first video of a little series I want to do
about the psychological power of style - and about how style can help you for
your inner well-being and also your mental health. I experienced in my own
life how important the power of style can be and so I want to share my
thoughts on it with you - because I think it's really important that we as women
empower each other and encourage each other. When I speak of style I mean the
way you style yourself: the way you groom the way you dress the way you wear your
hair - everything on your outside where other people who will meet you can get a
little glimpse of what's on the inside. So let's dive right into today's topic:
How can style help you feel empowered and how can you use your personal style
to feel more confident? Let's talk about our clothing: clothing can be a
kind of second skin for us. It's a protection from the outside world, it
protects us from the weather, it protects us from other influences that come to us
and it sometimes also helps us to hide a little bit behind a mask or a facade
sometimes - and sometimes we use it as a kind of security blanket. But style can
actually do something more for us: it can empower us! In the last years there have
been several psychological studies about clothing and today I want to tell you
about two of them. The first study I want to tell you about was made by Professor
Karen Pine at the University of Hertfordshire (I hope I pronounced that
right). In this study they had two groups of students. One of the groups
wore superhero shirts and the other group wore normal blank plain t-shirts. Then
they made them do some mental ability tests - and guess what happened? The
students with the superhero shirts scored better in the tests.
And thye also said that they felt more likeable, that they felt superior and that they even
felt physically stronger. Isn't that great? Just by wearing a
superhero shirt! I will tell you why the results were like that in just a minute.
But let me tell you about another study, this was made by - let me look that up -
this was made by Adam and Galinsky at Northwestern University. And in this
study they also had two groups of people, and one group wore white lab coats and
the other group wore just their normal clothing. Then they did some
attention tests with the test persons and the people with a lab coat scored better.
And to take the experiment one step further, they again had two groups of
people and they gave both groups the exact same white lab coat. And then they
told one group that they are wearing artistic painter smocks and they told the
other group that they are wearing doctor's coats. And in the attention tests
the people with the doctors coats scored better. This is because in our
society and our cultural background being a doctor is associated with being a
well educated and intelligent person. So just by wearing these doctors coats, the
people embodied the characteristics and qualities they associated with being a
doctor and scored better in the tests. And the same is true for the superhero
shirts - the people who wore them felt more likeable and felt stronger because
superheroes are associated in our society with strong and likeable persons.
Adam and Galinsky called this phenomenon "enclothes
cognition" and it captures the influences clothes have on the wearer's
psychological processes. Just by wearing an item we can prime our mental
processes to work in a special way, because we - in most cases unconsciously -
embody the symbolic or cultural meaning of the item. What does that mean for our
daily lives? We can't and maybe don't want to run around in superhero shirts
or lab coats all day long... What I want to show you with these examples is, that if
you are wearing an item that has a special or deeper meaning for you - it can
be a symbolic meaning, a cultural meaning, it can be a personal meaning - then you
will embody the meaning that this clothing item has for you while you're
wearing it. And if it's a positive meaning you can empower yourself and
feel more confident or perform in a better way. From my own experience I can
tell you it's working. When I was a teenager I had this little black dress
- my mother had made it for me and I really loved it, and I wore it on special
occasions like weddings or when we went to theater or when I went to a ballet
performance. And I felt so sophisticated and elegant in it, because, that's what we
associate in our society with little black dresses , don't we ? And I still have
some items in my wardrobe which I use as my.... let's call it "power pieces". And I am
wearing these power pieces when I want to feel supported by my clothing for
important occasions. Now I will tell you how you can find your personal power
pieces in your wardrobe. Reflect on the terms "successful" or "polished" or maybe
"sophisticated" and then go to your wardrobe and find the items that you
associate most with these words. If you have an important situation coming up
and you don't have items that reflect to these words... go, buy them!
Keep these terms in mind when you have an occasion coming up like maybe a job
interview or maybe an important meeting with a client where you have to present
something - or something else where you need to look successful or polished or
sophisticated. You can also play a little bit with it. You can think about a date
night - and when you want to look beautiful or sexy on that date night
then go to your wardrobe and check the clothing in it and find the pieces that
really correspond with the words "beautiful" and "sexy" for you and then go
and wear it on the date night! If you have some power pieces in your own
wardrobe please share them in the comments! I'm really curious to hear from
you and I also want this channel to be a place where we can all inspire each
other and maybe it's helpful for someone. If you liked this video or found it
useful, please give it a thumbs up! And if you want to learn more about the
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press the little Bell button next to the subscribe button. Thank you so much for
watching everybody! I really appreciate each and every one
of you who is watching, because my channel is still so new! I see you in
the next video and until then, embrace your life and be your unique beautiful self!
Bye!
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