Rate My Professor Patricia Devine

Patricia Devine is the Kenneth and Mamie Clark Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a position she has held since 2013. She joined the faculty in 1985 as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and to full professor in 1995. Devine served as Chair of the Department of Psychology from 2009 to 2014 and directs the Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab. Her research investigates how people manage intrapersonal and interpersonal challenges associated with prejudice in contemporary society, including sources of internal and external motivation for responding without prejudice, the relationship between explicit and implicit attitudes, processes regulating stereotype use, and evidence-based interventions to empower individuals to break the prejudice habit. She has developed interventions demonstrating long-term reductions in implicit racial bias and addressing gender bias in STEM contexts.

Devine earned her B.A. in Psychology summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 1981, M.A. in Social Psychology in 1983, and Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 1986 from Ohio State University. Seminal publications include "Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components" (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1989), "Prejudice with and without compunction" (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1991), and "Long-term reduction in implicit race bias: A prejudice habit-breaking intervention" (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2012). She has received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1994), Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize (1990), Hilldale Award in the Social Sciences (2019), Society for Personality and Social Psychology Career Contribution Award (2019), and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2025). Devine served as Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition (2000-2005), President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2010), and Editor of Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (2009-2012).