Beth Linker Is Turning Good Posture on Its Head

In a conversation about her new book Slouch, Beth Linker, Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences, talks about why the actual science doesn’t support the conventional wisdom about proper posture. “We use posture to judge character, intelligence and physical ability,” she says. “It’s shallow and ableist to estimate what another person can or cannot do based on their posture.”