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.

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?

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?

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.

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.