Research Interests

Sociology of education, School segregation, Discrimination, Interethnic relations, Ethnic classification, Social network analysis, Peer relations among children and adolescents, Negative ties, School bullying and victimization 

Selected Publications

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

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

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 

Research Projects

Diszkrimináció a pedagógiai értékelésben vagy hálózati hatások? Az etnikai és nemi iskolai teljesítménykülönbségek mechanizmusai (Discrimination in teacher assessments or network effects? Understanding the mechanisms behind ethnic and gender differences in school achievement), NKFIH FK 137765, PI: Dorottya Kisfalusi, 2021 - 2024

Peer influence or discrimination? Understanding the mechanisms behind ethnic differences in school achievement, Swedish Research Council, PI: Károly Takács, 2024 - 2026

Tackling the spread of cigarettes and alternative nicotine products in social networks, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, PI: Márta Radó, 2024 - 2026

EVILTONGUE: No Sword Bites So Fiercly as an Evil Tongue? Gossip Wrecks Reputation, but Enhances Cooperation, ERC, PI: Károly Takács, 2015 – 2021

OTKA K112929 Pletyka, reputáció és kooperáció: A társadalmi rend informális építőkövei (Gossip, Reputation, and Cooperation: Informal Building Blocks of Social Order)

MTA TK ’Lendület’ RECENS Group: Competition and Negative Networks: The Origin, Dynamics, and Harmful Consequences of Negative Relations