Dr. Katherine V. Aumer is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai¿i-West O¿ahu, in Kapolei, HI. Formerly an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Hawai¿i Pacific University, she received her PhD from the University of Texas, Austin. She has conducted research in the areas of emotion, relationship satisfaction, and racial identity, and her current research focuses on interpersonal relationships and identity issues concerning both culture and race, as well as the psychology of hatred.