Keith Payne is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an international leader in the psychology of inequality and discrimination. He uses behavioral experiments to discover how people understand their place in the social world. The stories, justifications, and rationalizations they tell themselves are infused with moral and social meaning,and have immense consequences for our politics. His research has been featured in The Atlantic and The New York Times, and on NPR, and he has written for Scientific American and Psychology Today.
