# Professor Batia Wiesenfeld comments on how experiencing power influences thinking and perception

1 Faculty News August 31, 2018 ![Fast Company logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_026723.jpg?itok=PGORMP3v)>

Excerpt from [Fast Company](https://www.fastcompany.com/90230146/power-changes-your-brain-and-thats-not-always-a-good-thing) -- "'\[It\] creates psychological distance between the powerful person and everything else,' says Batia Wiesenfeld, a management professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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