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Dr. Mistry and her students study children’s experiences of social and economic inequality and its influence on their academic and social outcomes. Our research has two principal foci:

Examining the extent to which contextual factors, such as poverty, immigration, and social policies, influence family dynamics and, in turn, children’s developmental outcomes.
Investigating the development, consequences, and malleability of children’s beliefs about social and economic inequality.

2017 - 2018 RAC

Top row: Lindsey Nenadal, Taylor Hazelbaker, Manpreet Dhillon Brar

Bottom row: Paul Luelmo, Elianny Edwards, Dr. Rashmita Mistry

Not pictured: Kate Griffin

IN THE NEWS

Awards, grants, and fellowships for the 2017-18 academic year:

Dr. Rashmita Mistry received the Lena Astin Faculty Mentoring Award.
Manpreet Dhillon Brar received the Merlin C. Wittrock Fellowship.
Elianny Edwards received the Lawrence W. Erickson Memorial Fellowship.
Kate Griffin received the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) Student & Early Career Council Dissertation Funding Award and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Grants-in-Aid.
Taylor Hazelbaker received the UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship award and the H. Elwood Zillgitt and Mildred Bostwick Finney Fellowship.
Paul Luelmo received the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship.
Lindsey Nenadal was named a California Poverty & Socioeconomic Fellow by University of California, Riverside's Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty and received the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Grants-in-Aid.

New publications:

Read a recent article highlighting work from the Mistry lab here!
White, E. S., & Mistry, R.S. (2017; online first). Teachers’ civic socialization practices and upper-elementary school-age children’s civic engagement. Applied Developmental Science.
Nenadal, L., & Mistry, R.S. (2017; online first). In their own words: Teachers’ reflections on using an inquiry-based approach to talk with young children about wealth and poverty. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
Mistry, R.S., Nenadal, L., Hazelbaker, T., & Griffin, K. (2017). Promoting elementary school-age children’s understanding of wealth, poverty, and civic engagement. PS: Political Science and Politics, Teacher Symposium: The Politics and Pedagogy of Economic Inequality. 50, 1068-1073.
Rodriguez-Operana, V. C., Mistry, R. S., & Chen, Y. C. (2017). Model minority or minority at risk? Examining the achievement-adjustment paradox among Filipino-American adolescents of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Asian American Journal of Psychology, Special Issue: Moving Beyond the Model Minority, 8, 56-71.

GET INVOLVED

Current projects:

Coming soon

For a list of classes taught:

http://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/rashmita-mistry/

Contact:

Rashmita S. Mistry, Ph.D.

Professor, Human Development & Psychology Program

Department of Education

University of California, Box 951521

Los Angeles, CA., 90095-1521

Email: mistry@gseis.ucla.edu

Phone: 310-825-6569 Fax: 310-206-6293