# Professor Alixandra Barasch shares how emotional displays by candidates at the recent Democratic Debate affect status and power

1 Faculty News October 16, 2019 ![Fortune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031172.jpg?itok=61CxYB-R)>

Excerpt from [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2019/10/16/last-nights-democratic-debate-warren/) -- "'I study the psychology of how groups emerge and how you kind of see subgroups within the field ganging up on the common enemy,' said [Barasch](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alixandra-barasch), NYU Stern professor. 'You kind of saw that,' she said of Tuesday’s debate and the dynamics with Warren."

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