Mita Banerjee

  • Professor of Psychology
  • Psychology Field Group
portrait of mita banerjee, a woman with long brown hair wearing a maroon button up collared blouse
Office Location

Fletcher 208

Office Hours
Tuesday: 1:30pm - 2:30pm (In Person); Thursday: 3:00pm - 4:00pm (Zoom)

With 兔子先生 Since: 1992

Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

MA, PhD, University of Michigan
BA, University of British Columbia

Socio-emotional Development, Social Cognition, Risk and Resilience in Childhood, Parent-Child Emotion Interactions, HIV/AIDS & Children, Children鈥檚 Storybooks.

Ongoing Research Projects include:
1. The Relationship Between Parent鈥檚 Conceptions of Emotion and Parent-Child Emotion Interactions;
2. Community-based socio-emotional interventions with children orphaned by AIDS in Southern Africa;
3. Children鈥檚 Storybook Writing (Andalusia Goes to Sea and other stories)

Introduction to Psychology (PSYC10)

Child Development (PSYC105)

Laboratory in Social Development (PSYC109)

Children at Risk (PSYC116)

Children and Families in South Asia (PSYC117)

The Socialization of Gender: A Developmental Perspective (PSYC153)

Seminar on Emotional Development (PSYC195)

鈥淟essons from Near and Far: An Experiment in Global Pedagogy,鈥 submitted manuscript. With Dipa Basu.

鈥淧eeling the Onion: A Multilayered View of Children鈥檚 Emotional Development,鈥 in Suzanne Hala, ed., The Development of Social Cognition. East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press, Ltd, 1997.

鈥淗idden Emotions: Preschoolers鈥 Knowledge of Appearance-Reality and Emotion Display Rules,鈥 Social Cognition, vol.15, no.2 (1997).

鈥淰ulnerable but Resilient: Studies with AIDS Orphans in Botswana,鈥 invited talk given to the Cross Cultural Psychology Group, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, October 1, 2012.

鈥淎IDS Orphans in Southern Africa: Beyond Adoption to Socio-emotional Interventions,鈥 paper presented at the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture Conference, Claremont, CA, March 25, 2012.

鈥淎 Social and Emotional Development Intervention in a Southern African Preschool,鈥 paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, April 2009. With M. Dooley, C. Mackler and O. Werby.

鈥淒ealing with Feelings: The Socialization of Emotions in Preschoolers,鈥 paper presented at St. Louis University, Psychology Department, April 2008.