You Are What You Act
Will smiling make you happy? Will changing your posture make you more confident? Can the science of embodied cognition make you feel better?
Genre: Documentary
Director: Albert Nerenberg
Actors: Antoine Beaulieu, Gabriel Lemay, Indigo Hamer, Laura Luu, Lauren Guarneri, Maria Jimena Osorio, Nadja Lefebvre, Patrick Blois, Peter Nguyen, Rahul Gandhi
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