He obtained his Ph.D. from Tulane University, worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Purdue University, and has been on the faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio and at Rice University. His research, focusing on emotions at work and the methods used to examine them, has been funded by the DoD, NIH, and NSF, and has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science. In addition, Dan has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Management, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Business and Psychology.