# Professor Joe Magee provides insight into the psychological effects of power

1 Faculty News June 7, 2019 ![Business Insider logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/business%20insider%20logo.jpg?itok=0MJSCdPh)>

Excerpt from [Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/power-makes-goals-more-psychologically-relevant-2019-6) -- "'The point is that power moves people in some predictable directions on average,' Joe Magee, a New York University psychologist who studies the psychological effects of power, told Business Insider in a phone interview. It's not so much a bias, he's careful to note, but a cognitive tendency or propensity."

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