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Author: Manuel Galvan

Manuel is a social psychology doctoral student at UNC-Chapel Hill. He works with Drs. Keith Payne & Keely Muscatell to study how socio-economic class and economic inequality relate to attitudes, beliefs, behavior, and neurophysiology.

Blog / Symmetrical Politics, Asymmetrical Marginalization

March 14, 2022 / Manuel Galvan /

Similar tendencies on the political left and right have different consequences on marginalized communities.

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asymmetry conservative ideology liberal marginalized moderate Politics symmetry

Blog / Unlearning the Learning Styles Myth

October 19, 2021 / Manuel Galvan /

Belief in “learning styles” is widespread despite there being no compelling scientific evidence for the theory. Read more on the problems with learning styles, how widespread beliefs in learning styles are, and why these beliefs persists.

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Debunk Education Learning Styles Psychology Skeptic

Academia / Cursed Scientific Prophecies: Accurately Predicting the Future and Being Ignored

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 / Manuel Galvan / 2

Scientists warned policy makers about a global pandemic for years, and we were still unprepared. What other predictions are scientists making that we should be reacting to?

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BlogClimate Change COVID-19 Food Waste Inequality policy Poverty Predictions Science

Blog / A Tale of Two Political Narratives About Racial Inequality

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 / Manuel Galvan /

Conservatives and liberals offer differing views on the causes of racial inequality. What does the experimental evidence say?

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Discrimination Politics Psychology Racial inequality Racism

Academia / Rejecting the Roots of Racist Research

June 29, 2020July 22, 2020 / Manuel Galvan / 2

Science has long been complicit in the perpetuation of racism. Recently, psychologists confronted the fact that racist science is still being published.

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BlogHistory of Science Psychology Racism Retraction

Blog / Inequality (Un)Awareness

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 / Manuel Galvan / 1

It seems that in this polarizing era, two things unite us: our preference for more equality and our ignorance of the scale of current inequality.

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Economics Inequality Politics Public opinion Social psychology

Blog / The Price We Pay for Economic Inequality

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 / Manuel Galvan / 2

Seminal research finds that health and social problems are worse when inequality is high.

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epidemiology Inequality public health social problems

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