Yidan Yin
Assistant Professor in Management & Organization
Yidan (Dani) Yin joined the Management and Organization Department in 2024. Before joining Smeal, Dani was a postdoctoral researcher at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Dani's research centers on understanding how individuals navigate novelty and uncertainty in organizational settings, focusing on cognitive and social processes that enhance adaptation, decision-making, and interpersonal relationships.
Education
PhD in Management, University of California San Diego, 2021-01-01 BS in Psychology, Zhejiang University, 2013-01-01
Courses Taught
MGMT 355 – Lead and Chg in Org
This course focuses on concerns with understanding yourself as a leader in organizations-especially organizations undergoing change.
Selected Publications
Lee E. H., Yin Y., Jia N., Wakslak C. J. "Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and meaning while active collaboration mitigates the effects" Scentific Reports, 2026-03-15
Yin Y., Appel G., Wakslak C. J. "Nice to meet you.(!) Gendered norms in punctuation usage" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2025-11-01
Wakslak C. J., Yin Y., Appel G. "Don't Overthink Your Use of Exclamation Points!" 2025-09-24
Yin Y., Barrett R., Williams M., Wiesenfeld B. M., Wakslak C. J. "Developing a General Construal Questionnaire" Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2025-03-23
Yin Y., Mueller J., Wakslak C. J. "Understanding How People React to Change: A Domain of Uncertainty Approach" Academy of Management Annals, 2024-06-18
Yin Y., Jia N., Wakslak C. J. "AI can help people feel heard, but an AI label diminishes this impact" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121, 2024-03-29
Yin Y., Wakslak C. J., Joshi P. D. "“I” am more concrete than “we”: Linguistic abstraction and first-person pronoun usage." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 122, 2022-01-01
Yin Y., Savani K., Smith P. K. "Power increases perceptions of others’ choices, leading people to blame others more" Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 13, 2022-01-01
Mueller J., Yin Y. "Unraveling the bias against novelty: Guiding the study of our tendency to desire but reject the new" Handbook of research on creativity and innovation, 2021-01-01
Yin Y., Smith P. K. "When and how refusing to help decreases one's influence" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 95, 2021-01-01
Lupoli M. J., Zhang M., Yin Y., Oveis C. "A conflict of values: when perceived compassion decreases trust" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 91, 2020-01-01
Leong L. M., Yin Y., McKenzie C. R. "Exploiting asymmetric signals from choices through default selection" Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 27, 2020-01-01
Yin Y., Smith P. K. "Power and cognitive functioning" Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 33, 2020-01-01
Yin Y., Smith P. "Power increases cognitive functioning" 2019-11-01