🖖🏻 I'm Jiarui Liang,

but you can call me Bruce.

🖖🏻 I'm Jiarui Liang,

but you can call me Bruce.

I am a Ph.D. student in sociology at Yale University. My research examines when and how people make decisions and coordinate with others through second-order inferences (i.e. what a specific other thinks) and third-order inferences (i.e. what most people think). My forthcoming work in Social Problems applies this interest to the family, examining how parents and children coordinate advice-giving. I use both quantitative and qualitative methods to tackle my research questions.


I hold an Honours Bachelor’s and a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Toronto.

My CV is linked here.

Reach me at: bruce.liang@yale.edu

I am a Ph.D. student in sociology at Yale University. My research examines when and how people make decisions and coordinate with others through second-order inferences (i.e. what a specific other thinks) and third-order inferences (i.e. what most people think). My forthcoming work in Social Problems applies this interest to the family, examining how parents and children coordinate advice-giving. I use both quantitative and qualitative methods to tackle my research questions.


I hold an Honours Bachelor’s and a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Toronto.

My CV is linked here.

Reach me at: bruce.liang@yale.edu