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Dorottya Kisfalusi

Adjunct Associate Professor

I am interested in educational inequalities, school segregation, discrimination, positive and negative peer relationships among children and adolescents, school bullying and victimization, interethnic relations, and ethnic classification processes.

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I am a sociologist interested in educational inequalities, school segregation, discrimination, positive and negative peer relationships among children and adolescents, school bullying and victimization, interethnic relations, and ethnic classification processes.

I received my PhD in sociology at the Corvinus University of Budapest, in 2016. Besides IAS, I am also affiliated with the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest.

At IAS, I participate in two following research projects:

  • Peer influence or discrimination? Understanding the mechanisms behind ethnic differences in school achievement (funded by the Swedish Research Council, PI: Károly Takács)
  • Tackling the spread of cigarettes and alternative nicotine products in social networks (funded by FORTE, PI: Márta Radó)

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Recent publications

Hermann, Z., Horváth H., Kisfalusi D. (2024): Are separate classrooms inherently unequal? The effect of within-school sorting on the socioeconomic test score gap in Hungary. Economics of Education Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102582

Hermann Z., Kisfalusi D. (2023): School segregation, student achievement, and educational attainment in Hungary. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231198434

Kisfalusi, D. (2023): Roma Students’ Academic Self-Assessment and Educational Aspirations in Hungarian Primary Schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(5): 879-895. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2023.2206003

Kisfalusi, D. (2023): Are equally competent Roma minority students perceived as less smart than their non-Roma classmates? Ethnic differences in teachers’ ability attributions. Journal for Multicultural Education, 17(4): 443-457. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-03-2023-0015

Radó, Márta K., Dorottya Kisfalusi, Anthony A. Laverty, Frank J. van Lenthe, Jasper V. Been, Károly Takács (2023): Socioeconomic inequalities in smoking and drinking in adolescence: assessment of social network dynamics. Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16384

Kisfalusi, D., M. Hooijsma, G. Huitsing, R. Veenstra (2022): How Dislike and Bullying Co-Develop: A Longitudinal Study of Negative Relationships among Children. Social Development, 31(3): 797-810.https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12582

Estevez, J.L., D. Kisfalusi, K. Takács (2022): More than One’s Negative Ties: The Role of Friends’ Antipathies in High School Gossip. Social Networks, 70: 77-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.11.009

Kisfalusi, D., Janky, B., and Takács, K. (2021): Grading in Hungarian Primary Schools: Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination against Roma Students. European Sociological Review, 37(6): 899-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab023

Hooijsma, M., D. Kisfalusi, G. Huitsing, J.K. Dijkstra, A. Flache, R. Veenstra (2021): Crossing ethnic boundaries? A social network investigation of defending relationships in schools. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24(8): 1391-1408. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211009318

Romano, Angelo, Francesca Giardini, Simon Columbus, Erik W. de Kwaadsteniet, Dorottya Kisfalusi, Zegni Triki, Chris Snijders, Kristin Hagel (2021): Reputation and socio-ecology in humans. Philosophical Transactions B, Volume 376 Issue 1838, https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0295

Kristóf, L., D. Kisfalusi, E. Vit (2021): Political homophily in cultural reputational networks. Poetics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101538

Kisfalusi, D., J. Pál, and Zs. Boda (2020): Bullying and victimization among majority and minority students: The role of peers’ ethnic perceptions. Social Networks 60(1): 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2018.08.006

Hooijsma, M., G. Huitsing, D. Kisfalusi, J.K. Dijkstra, A. Flache, and R. Veenstra (2020): Multidimensional similarity in multiplex networks: Friendships between same- and cross-gender bullies and same- and cross-gender victims. Network Science 8 (1): 79–96. doi:10.1017/nws.2020.1

Kisfalusi, D., B. Janky and K. Takács (2019): Double Standards or Social Identity? The Role of Gender and Ethnicity in Ability Perceptions in the Classroom. The Journal of Early Adolescence 39 (5): 745–780. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431618791278

A full list of publications can be found here:

https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10035690

2026

Bela Janky, Dorottya Kisfalusi, Rez Anna (2026) Household Chores: Egalitarian Norms and Unequal Outcomes Journal of Family and Economic Issues (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Márta K Radó, Dorottya Kisfalusi, Anthony A Laverty, Frank J van Lenthe, Jasper V Been, Károly Takács (2026) Social network mechanisms of ethnic inequalities in smoking among adolescents European Journal of Public Health, Article ckaf215 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2025

Dorottya Kisfalusi, Károly Takács (2025) Social Networks in Early Adolescence: Introduction to the Special Issue Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 45, p. 1049-1063 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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