In addition to contributing to the self-talk literature, these results are also consistent with the concept of embodied validation (Brinol et al., 2012 ˜ ) such that a person’s own bodily responses can impact his/her judgments and his/her subsequent behaviors by affecting thought usage. Thus, the effects of positive and negative self-statements on physical performance were significantly greater when participants were led to nod rather than shake their heads. Described differently, the results revealed that listening to positive self-statements while nodding increased physical performance relative to listening to positive self-statements while shaking. However, listening to negative self-statements reversed this pattern. When listening to negative self-statements, participants tended to perform better if they engaged in a behavior associated with low validity (shaking) rather than a behavior associated with high validity (nodding). This is a unique implication of the selfvalidation logic according to which bodily movements can magnify or attenuate the effect of anything that is currently available in people’s minds including self-talk as demonstrated in the present study.