Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Kiang, Lisa, Witkow, Melissa R., Gonzalez, Laura M., Stein, Gabriela L., and Kandace Andrews. “Changes in Academic Aspirations and Expectations among Asian American Adolescents.” Asian American Journal of Psychology 6.3 (2015): 252-262.
Bower, Andrew R., Nishina, Adrienne, Witkow, Melissa R.,and Amy Bellmore. “Nice Guys and Gals Finish Last? Not in Early Adolescence When Empathic, Accepted, and Popular Peers Are Desirable.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 44.12 (2015): 2275-2288.
Sutter, Carolyn, Nishina, Adrienne, Witkow, Melissa R. and Amy Bellmore. “Associations Between Adolescents’ Weight and Maladjustment Differ With Deviation From Weight Norms in Social Contexts.” Journal of School Health 86.9 (2016): 638-644.
Kiang, Lisa, Witkow, Melissa R., and Taylor L. Thompson. “Model Minority Stereotyping, Perceived Discrimination, and Adjustment Among Adolescents from Asian American Backgrounds.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45.7 (2016): 1366-1379.
Thompson, Taylor L., Kiang, Lisa, and Melissa R. Witkow. “‘You’re Asian; You’re Supposed to Be Smart’: Adolescents’ Experiences with the Model Minority Stereotype and Longitudinal Links with Identity.” Asian American Journal of Psychology 7.2 (2016): 108-119.
Stevens, C., Witkow, Melissa R., Smelt, B.* “Strengthening scientific reasoning skills in Introductory Psychology: Evidence from community college and liberal arts classrooms.” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology 2 (2016): 245-260.
Witkow, Melissa R., Rickert, N. P.*, and Cullen, L. E.* “Daily school context of adolescents’ single best friendship and academic and social adjustment.” Journal of Genetic Psychology 178.2 (2017): 119-132.
Internal Awards
Melissa Witkow (Research, Teaching and Service), 2015-2016.
External Grants and Fellowships
Melissa Witkow, Psychology. Research Subaward from University of California Davis, Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning Education Research Grant, “Daily experiences with diversity: Academic and social adjustment in high school,” (Adrienne Nishina, PI, Award No. R305A170559), U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, $230,503, May 2017
External Awards
Melissa Witkow, Psychology. AAJP 2016 Best Paper Award for the article, “You’re Asian; You’re supposed to be smart: Adolescents’ experiences with the Model Minority Stereotype and longitudinal links with identity,” (with coauthors Taylor Thompson and Lisa Kiang), Asian American Journal of Psychology, June 2016