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Keith Payne

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.
Good Reasonable People
The Broken Ladder

Books

Good Reasonable People
The Broken Ladder

Books for Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month in March, we are sharing books by women who have shaped history and have fought for their communities. Our list includes books about women who fought for racial justice, abortion rights, equality in the workplace, and ranges in topics from women in politics and prominent women in history to

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Books for World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

For World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development on May 21st, we are sharing a collection that includes titles that advise on communicating with others with differing opinions about complex topics and books that give insight on systemic societal issues that individuals might face in their personal and professional lives. Our goal is

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Keith Payne’s Good Reasonable People

There has been much written about the impact of polarization on elections, political parties, and policy outcomes. But Keith Payne’s goal is more personal: to focus on what our divisions mean for us as individuals, as families, and as communities. This book is about how ordinary people think about politics, why talking about it is

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