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Keith Payne is a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an international leader in the psychology of inequality and discrimination. 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.

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	The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die 4.21 avg rating — 4,050 ratings — published 2018 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide 4.07 avg rating — 884 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keith Payne VC No One Left Behind 4.40 avg rating — 50 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Different Eden / Un Edén diferente by Keith Payne (Editor), Mart�n Veiga (Editor), Lorna Shaughnessy (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Is Always... Still Yet to Come!: Seeing God in the Details of Daily Life it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stepping Back in Time - Jardine, Payne, Hoy: A Family History 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Different Eden / Un Edén diferente: Ecopoetry from Ireland and Galicia by Keith Payne (Editor), Mart�n Veiga (Editor), Lorna Shaughnessy (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I believe we have to view inequality as a public health problem.”
― Keith Payne, The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

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“...high inequality is associated with higher rates of crime, greater risk of stress-related illness, and greater political polarization.”
― Keith Payne, The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

tags: disparity, inequality, polarization, psychology

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“Because we habitually make social comparisons to the people we encounter in everyday contexts, another way to manage the effects of inequality is to change those contexts. So in addition to changing your comparisons, you can choose your situations wisely.”
― Keith Payne, The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

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