Yaniv Dover

Prof.

Yaniv

Dover

Vice Dean of Research

Room 21534

Yaniv.Dover@mail.huji.ac.il

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Yaniv Dover is an Associate Professor in Marketing at the Hebrew University Business School, a member in the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality.

Prof. Dover’s research focuses on social networks and dynamics, online communities, social media management and marketing, consumer-generated media, digital marketing, and diffusion of information and innovations. He uses mathematical and behavioral models to study social media.

Prof. Dover was a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Yale School of Management, after which he served as an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. His research has implications across disciplines and was published in American Economic Review, Marketing Science, Harvard Business Review, Physical Review B, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, PLoS ONE, Physica A, and other periodicals.

During his PhD, he won the three-year Center for Complexity Science scholarship for outstanding PhD students, the GIACS scholarship for interdisciplinary students, and the Hebrew UniversityBusiness School scholarship. The research based on his dissertation won an ISF grant. During his postdoc, he won the Yale Whitebox Grant for Behavioral Sciences and the Wharton (U. Penn.) Customer Analytics Initiative Fellowship. As a faculty member, he won the Abe Gray Prize for Research Excellence, and the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) Individual Research Grant. His work has been cited in Forbes, NPR, Slate, NBC, Financial Times, Science Daily, US News & World Report, Calcalist, Kan News, Globes, and other outlets.

Prof. Dover earned his PhD at the Hebrew University, as well as his MSc and BSc in Theoretical Physics. He teaches the courses Fundamentals of Marketing Management, Customer Relationship Management Analytics, and Marketing Research Methods.

Publications

Efrat‐Treister, D. PI, Oreg, S. PI, & Dover, Y. PI (2024). The relationships between affect dimensions and level of construal. European Journal of Social Psychology 54 (3), 715 - 729.

Dover, Y. PI, Amichai-Hamburger, Y. C (2023). Characteristics of online user-generated text predict the emotional intelligence of individuals. Scientific Reports 13, 6778.

Brandes L. C, Y. Dover PI (2021). Post-consumption susceptibility of online reviewers to random weather-related events. Journal of Consumer Research, 49 (4), 595 - 615.

Dover, Y., J. Goldenberg, and D. Shapira. "Sustainable online communities exhibit distinct hierarchical structures across scales of size." Proceedings of the Royal Society A 476.2239 (2020): 20190730.

Dover, Y., and Z. Moore. "Using free association networks to extract characteristic patterns of affect dynamics." Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 476.2236 (2020): 20190647.

Dover, Y., & Kelman, G. (2018). Emergence of online communities: Empirical evidence and theory. PLoS ONE ,13 (11), e0205167.

Dover, Y., & Kelman, G. (2018). Centralized nucleation in online networks leads to high social inequality. Applied Network Science, 3:43.

Dover Y., Kelman G. (2018) Nucleation of Social Groups: The Role of Centrality Inequality and Social Mobility. In: Cherifi C., Cherifi H., Karsai M., Musolesi M. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications VI. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2017. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 689. Springer, Cham.

Chevalier, J., Y. Dover, and D. Mayzlin (2018). “Channels of Impact: User reviews when quality is dynamic and managers respond.” Marketing Science, 37 (5), 688-709.

Mayzlin, D., Y. Dover, J. Chevalier (2014). Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation. American Economic Review, 104(8), 2421-55.

Dover Y., J. Goldenberg, D. Shapira (2012). Network Traces on Penetration: Uncovering Degree Distribution from Adoption Data. Marketing Science 31(4), 689–712.

Mayzlin, D., Y. Dover, J. Chevalier (2012). Who Gave That Hotel Five Stars? The Concierge... Harvard Business Review 90(9), 24.

Balberg, I., Y. Dover, E. Savir and P. von Huth (2010). Basic physics of phototransport as manifested in thin films of In-doped CdTe, Physical Review B 82, 205302.

Dover, Y., S. Moulet, S. Solomon and G. Yaari (2009). Do All Economies Grow Equally Fast? Risk and Decision Analysis, 1(3) 171-185.

Balberg, I., E. Savir, Y. Dover, O. Portillo Moreno, R. Lozada-Morales, and O. Zelaya- Angel (2007). Meyer-Neldel-like manifestation of the quantum confinement effect in solid ensembles of semiconductor quantum dots, Physical Review B 75, 153301.

Hoffman, Y., O. Lahav, G. Yepes, Y. Dover (2007). The Future of the Local Large Scale Structure: the roles of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 10, 016.

Balberg, I., Y. Dover (2006). The Effect of Light Induced Degredation on the Sensitization Phenomenon in a-Si:H. Festschrift in Honor of Prof. R. Grigorovici, Journal of Optoelecrtonics and Advanced Materials, 8, 1996-2002.

Dover, Y. (2004). A Short Account of a Connection of Power Laws to the Information

Entropy. Physica A, 334:591-599 (2004).

Balberg, I., D. Azulay, O. Millo, Y. Dover, J. Conde and V. Cho (2004). Where Does the Current Flow in Microcrystalline Silicon. Proc. of the 6th Int’l Conf. on Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Bangkok.

Balberg, I., Y. Dover, R. Naides, J. P. Conde, and V. Chu (2004). State Distribution in

Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon. Physical Review B, 69.

Chapters in Books

Martinez-Vaquero, L. A., Gustavo Yepes, Yaniv Dover, Yehuda Hoffman, Anatoly Klypin, Stefan Gottlöber (2009). Constrained Simulations of the Local Universe. Galaxies in the Local Volume, Springer Netherlands.

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