Inequality and Subjective Status: Why economic inequality is more than economics

Keith Payne, PhD, 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

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Presenter:
Keith Payne, PhD, is a 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.