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Joe C. Magee

  • Professor of Management and Organizations
  • Department Chair
  • Mary Jacoby Faculty Fellow

Joined Stern 2004

jcm15@stern.nyu.edu

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Tisch Hall

40 West Fourth Street

New York, NY 10012

About Joe C. Magee

Joe Magee, Professor of Management and Organizations, joined New York University Stern School of Business in September 2004. Professor Magee's research revolves around the roles of hierarchy in organizations and society. He has investigated how power differences transform the way people think and behave and how people figure out who has power over whom. Professor Magee and his colleagues discovered a series of reliable changes in the psychology of power-holders that seem to be potentially damaging for relationships and organizations but, under certain conditions, actually can contribute to interpersonal and organizational effectiveness. He has also published on the social role of emotion.

Professor Magee is also affiliated with NYU's Psychology Department and Wagner School of Public Service.

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  • Management and Organizations
  • Psychology of power
  • Foundations of social hierarchy and inequality
  • Social role of emotion
  • Management
    • Corporate Culture
    • Leadership
  • Advanced Research in Organizational Behavior
  • Leadership/Leadership in Organizations
  • Power and Politics/Professional Influence
  • Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, 2004

    Stanford University

  • A.B., Psychology, 1996

    University of Michigan

  • Decade Award, Academy of Management Annals (2018)

  • Rising Star, Association of Psychological Science (APS) (2011)

  • Best Paper Award, Academy of Management, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division (2009)

  • Rothman, N. B., & Magee, J. C. (2016)

    Affective expressions in groups and inferences about members’ relational well-being: The effects of socially engaging and disengaging emotions

    Cognition and Emotion, 30, 150-166

  • Waytz, A., Chou, E. Y., Magee, J. C., & Galinsky, A. D. (2015)

    Not so lonely at the top: The relationship between power and loneliness

    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 130, 69-78

  • West, T. V., Magee, J. C., Gordon, S. H., & Gullett, L. (2014)

    A little similarity goes a long way: The effects of peripheral but self-revealing similarities on improving and sustaining interracial relationships

    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 81-100

  • Galinsky, A. D., Magee, J. C., Rus, D., Rothman, N. B., & Todd, A. R (2014)

    Acceleration with steering: The synergistic benefits of combining power with perspective-taking

    Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 627-635

  • Rucker, D. D., Galinsky, A. D., & Magee, J. C. (2018)

    The agentic-communal model of advantage and disadvantage: How inequality produces similarities in the psychology of power, social class, gender, and race.

    J. M. Olson (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 58, pp. 71-125). Cambridge, MA

  • Magee, J. C., & Smith, P. K. (2013)

    The social distance theory of power

    Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 158-186