Keith Payne

Keith Payne, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill. Payne received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Washington University. He studies the effects of inequality on human thought and behavior, and how psychological patterns create and reinforce racial and economic disparities. This research is overviewed in his book, The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the way we Think, Live, and Die.