Events

Event Title	UNC NRP October 2021 Education Session: Inequality and Subjective Status: Why economic inequality is more than economics
Location	https://zoom.us/j/97413489929?pwd=d3RQSWtSY3VpQnl3UlAyVjZlSDYwQT09
Sponsor	UNC Network for Research Professionals
Date/Time	10/21/2021 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

For more information, contact the event administrator: Sandy Barnhart sandy_barnhart@med.unc.edu

Event Presenters

Name	Title
Keith Payne	Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience	Keith Payne is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill. Payne received his PhD 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.

Dr. Keith Payne will present a framework for understanding how inequality affects individual outcomes based on people’s tendency to judge their own needs in comparison to others.

Objectives:
Learn how economic inequality shapes human decision making, attitudes, and behavior