Graduate Student

My research focuses on the social psychology of intragroup and intergroup relations. One current line of research is concerned with how issues of respect and quality of treatment from ingroup authorities shape how people think and feel about their group and about themselves. A second line of work, which I see as related to the first, is concerned with how people's conceptions of their ingroup (e.g., as benevolent and moral) influence preferences for competing or cooperating with particular outgroups. In the future, I hope to bring these two lines of research together more explicitly by exploring how intragroup processes influence relations between ingroups and outgroups. I also have side interests in issues related to multiracial identity and organizational diversity.

On a more personal note, I currrently live happily in West Los Angeles, arriving here by way of San Diego (where I received my undergraduate degree) and the East Bay Area (born in Oakland and raised in Walnut Creek, CA). My ethnic background consists of Euro-American, Peruvian, and Japanese ancestry. After completing my degree, I look forward to a career in teaching and research.

Binning, K. R. (2007). "It's us against the world": How distrust in Americans versus people-in general shapes support for competitive foreign policies. Political Psychology, 28, 777-799.

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