Research
I am interested in how employees’ understanding of cause and effect influences an organization’s ability to form and execute effective strategies. You can find my full research statement here.
Publications
- Goldberg, Amir and Madison Singell. “The Sociology of Interpretation.” Annual Review of Sociology, May, 2024. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-020321-030515.
- DeFilippis, Evan, Stephen Michael Impink, Madison Singell, Jeff Polzer, and Raffaella Sadun. “The Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Communication Patterns.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, May 2022, p. 180, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01190-9.
Working Papers (Full Manuscripts Available)
- Singell, Madison. ““Any Old Theory Will Do?: Why Cause-and-Effect Performance Links Form Parsimonious Mental Models of Complex Strategic Environments.” Job Market Paper, link to current version here.
- Singell, Madison. “First the Chicken, Then the Egg: How Ordering Strategic Choice Helps Organizations Learn and Decision-Makers Disagree.” link to current version here.
- Singell, Madison. “Organizational Applications of the Ising Model.”
- Singell, Madison, Andrea Freund, Lindred Greer, Hayagreeva Rao, and Magaret Neale. “Does Collective Mental Time Travel Improve the Performance of New Self-Managed Teams?: Evidence from a Startup Competition.”
- Polzer, Jeff, Evan DeFilippis, and Madison Singell. “When Meetings Multiply: The Consequences of Collaboration Overload.”
Work in Progress
- Singell, Madison and Co-Authors. “Does D-separation Generate Divergent Causal Understandings? Experimental Evidence.”
- Singell, Madison and Amir Goldberg. “On the Theory of Narratives.”
- Atwell, Jon, and Madison Singell. “AI and Cultural Representations of Meaning.”
- Singell, Madison. “It’s a Numbers Game: How Bayesian Updating Perpetuates Biased Outcomes and Gender-Dependent Noise in Promotion Markets.”