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Ryan P. Brown, Ph.D., is a professor of social psychology at The University of Oklahoma. He has been conducting research on how people think, feel, and behave for over 20 years, first at The University of Texas at Austin, then briefly at Amherst College in Massachusetts before coming to Oklahoma, where he now teaches and continues to conduct research on honor culture. He graduated cum laude with a B.A. in psychology from Rice University in Houston, TX. Having grown up in Alabama of Scotch-Irish descent, he has spent almost all of his life in "honor states."