Joe 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.

Research Interests

• Psychology of power
• Foundations of social hierarchy
• Social role of emotion

Courses Taught

• Advanced Research in Organizational Behavior
• Leadership in Organizations
• Power and Professional Influence

Academic Background

• Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, 2004
  Stanford University

• A.B., Psychology, 1996
  University of Michigan

Awards & Appointments

• Association of Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star 2011
• Academy of Management, Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division Best Paper Award 2009
• Eastern Academy of Management Outstanding Empirical Paper Award 2008

Selected Publications

• 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

• 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

• Magee, J. C., & Smith, P. K. (2013)
  The social distance theory of power
  Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 158-186