Prospective PhD Students
Admissions decisions at Yale SOM are not made by individual professors but instead by the department as a group.
We have a policy of not talking to individual candidates in advance to avoid giving unfair advantage to any of the applicants. For this reason, I do not respond to emails from prospective students.
For details about Yale's program and where to apply, see the website for applications: https://som.yale.edu/programs/phd.
We have a policy of not talking to individual candidates in advance to avoid giving unfair advantage to any of the applicants. For this reason, I do not respond to emails from prospective students.
For details about Yale's program and where to apply, see the website for applications: https://som.yale.edu/programs/phd.
I will be reviewing PhD applications for admission in the coming admission cycle. My current work focuses primarily on how individuals learn and perceive social norms.
I consider the following three papers to be most representative of the work I plan to complete in the future and the type of work on which I'm most excited to collaborate with doctoral students:
1. Dannals, J. E. & Li, Y. (2024). A theoretical framework for social norm perception. Research in Organizational Behavior, 44.
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2. Dannals, J. E., Reit, E. S., & Miller, D. T. (2020). From whom do we learn the norm? The role of hierarchical rank in social norm perception. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 213-227.
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3. Dannals, J. E., & Miller, D. T. (2017). Social norm perception in groups with outliers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(9), 1342-1359.
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If you're looking for advice on applying for PhDs, whether a PhD is right for you, or how you can best prepare your application, I recommend this resource from Wharton and this resource from two PhD students at HBS.