Kevin Binning

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology

Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center

Education and Training

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests

Most of my research seeks to understand social psychological problems in two topical areas: politics and education. I am especially interested in issues such as educational achievement, partisanship, and organizational engagement, and I explore how people's behavior in these domains is shaped, in part, by their subjective understandings of themselves and their social environment. My research aims to understand social behavior with an eye toward strategies to change behavior in socially constructive ways.

Recent Publications

Hammarlund, S.P., Scott, C., Binning, K.R., & Cotner, S. (2022). Context matters: how an ecological-belonging intervention can reduce inequities in STEM. BioScience.

Binning, K. R., Blatt, L., Chen, S., & Votruba-Drzal, E. (2021). Going to college with a posse: How having high school peers on campus supports college achievement. AERA Open, 7. 1-18.

Badea, C., Binning, K.R., Sherman, D.K., Boza, M., & Kende, A. (2021). Conformity to group norms: How group-affirmation shapes collective action. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95.

Binning, K.R., Cook, J.E., Greenaway, V.P., Garcia, J., Apfel, N., Sherman, D.K., & Cohen, G.L. (2021). Securing self-integrity over time: Self-affirmation disrupts a negative cycle between psychological threat and academic performance. Journal of Social Issues.

Wang, M.T., Binning, K.R., Del Toro, J., Qin, X., & Zepeda, C.D. (2021). Skill, thrill, and will: The role of metacognition, interest, and self-control in predicting student engagement in mathematics learning over time. Child Development, 92 (1).

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