Yang Danni
Research Fellow
Profile
Danni Yang is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore, working with A/Prof Brian Earp and contributing to Prof Julian Savulescu’s Collective Reflective Equilibrium in Practice (CREP) programme. She received her PhD in Psychology from South China Normal University and was previously a visiting doctoral scholar at Yale University under Prof Yarrow Dunham. Danni’s research integrates moral psychology, experimental philosophy, and AI ethics to examine how people navigate moral trade-offs across interpersonal and intergroup contexts, with a particular focus on harm-sensitivity, cognitive style, and relational norms.
Her work also extends to human–AI interaction. She has collaborated with Prof Karl F. MacDorman at Indiana University on research exploring how individuals perceive and morally evaluate artificial agents, especially in situations involving social decision-making and trust. Across her projects, she employs large-scale behavioural experiments, cross-cultural designs, and multi-method approaches to understand how people reason about harm, responsibility, and emerging technologies.