Patricia Devine

Patricia Grace Devine is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was the psychology department chair from 2009 to 2014. She was also the 2012 president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

She is an experimental social psychologist who specializes in prejudice, stereotypes, and intergroup relations. She received her PhD in social psychology from Ohio State University in 1986.

Major contributions

Devine's 1989 paper, Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components, received the prestigious Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, recognizing her paper's lasting impact that fundamentally altered the landscape of prejudice and stereotyping research. Her paper demonstrated that stereotypes and prejudicial emotions can be activated automatically, in opposition to one's explicit, controlled beliefs. This insight has spurred four decades of research on the automaticity and control of prejudice.

In 2006, she, Austin, Forscher, and Cox developed an intervention that taught participants cognitive techniques to overcome unintentional race bias, which was able to reduce implicit bias up to two months after the intervention. Since that initial publication in 2012, the bias habit-breaking training intervention has been tested in over a dozen randomized controlled trials and shown to be effective and generalizable to different forms of bias.

Selected Publications

Recent publications

William T. L. Cox, Lyn Abramson, Devine, and Steven Hollon, proposed the integrated perspective on prejudice and depression, which unites cognitive theories of depression with theories of prejudice, casting them in a common terminology and identifying ways that depression research can inform prejudice research and vice versa. This model has been used to adapt evidence-based clinical psychology methodologies, like cognitive behavioral therapy to enhance Devine and colleagues' bias intervention work with the bias habit-breaking training.

Devine, along with William T. L. Cox, Alyssa Bischmann, and Janet Hyde at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have suggested that “gaydar” is an alternate label for using stereotypes to infer orientation (e.g., inferring that fashionable men are gay) (2015). These studies have revealed that orientation is not visible from the face—participants did, however, readily infer orientation from stereotypic attributes (e.g., fashion, career). Compared to a control group, people stereotyped more when led to believe in gaydar, whereas people stereotyped less when told gaydar is an alternate label for stereotyping. It was concluded that “gaydar” serves as a legitimizing myth that disguises and perpetuates stereotyping.

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty & Staff". University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Psychology. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Officers & Committees 2011 to 2012". Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Patricia G. Devine". Lab home page devinesocialpsych. Retrieved October 3, 2012.[permanent dead link]
  4. ↑ "Faculty & Staff – Patricia G. Devine". University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Psychology. Archived from the original on January 13, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  5. ↑ Devine, Patricia G. (1989). "Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components" (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 56 (1): 5–18. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.56.1.5. S2CID 33975027.[permanent dead link]
  6. ↑ "Scientific Impact Award Recipients". Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  7. ↑ Henkelman, Jenny (August 9, 2012). "Schemata stigmata". Geez. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  8. ↑ Devine, Patricia G.; Forscher, Patrick S.; Austin, Anthony J.; Cox, William T. L. (2012). "Long-term reduction in implicit race bias: A prejudice habit-breaking intervention". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 48 (6): 1267–1278. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2012.06.003. PMC 3603687. PMID 23524616.
  9. 1 2 Cox, William T. L. (2023). "Developing scientifically validated bias and diversity trainings that work: empowering agents of change to reduce bias, create inclusion, and promote equity" (PDF). Management Decision. 61 (4): 1038–1061. doi:10.1108/MD-06-2021-0839. PMC 10120861. PMID 37090785.
  10. ↑ Mackie, Diane M., Hamilton, David Lewis (1993). The Role of Discrepancy-Associated Affect in Prejudice Reduction. Academic Press, Inc. pp. 317–344.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Devine, Patricia; Sherman, Steven (1992). "Intuitive versus Rational Judgment and the Role of Stereotyping in the Human Condition: Kirk or Spock?". Psychological Inquiry. 3 (2): 153–159. doi:10.1207/s15327965pli0302_13.
  12. ↑ Devine, Patricia (1989). "Stereotypes and Prejudice: Their Automatic and Controlled Components". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 56 (1): 5–18. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.56.1.5. S2CID 33975027.
  13. ↑ Devine, Patricia (1989). "Overattribution Effect: The Role of Confidence and Attributional Complexity". Social Psychology Quarterly. 52 (2): 149–158. doi:10.2307/2786914. JSTOR 2786914.
  14. ↑ Tesser, Abraham (1995). Advanced Social Psychology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. pp. 467–524.
  15. ↑ Brannigan, Gary (Ed.), Merrens, Matthew R. (Ed.) (1995). The social psychologists: Research adventures. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company. pp. 161–184.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  16. ↑ Devine, Patricia; Hirt, Edward; Gehrke, Elizabeth M. (1990). "Diagnostic and Confirmation Strategies in Trait Hypothesis Testing". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 58 (6): 952–963. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.58.6.952.
  17. ↑ Devine, Patricia; Monteith, Margo J.; Zuwerink, Julia R.; Elliot, Andrew J. (1991). "Prejudice With and Without Compunction". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 60 (6): 817–830. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.60.6.817.
  18. ↑ Devine, Patricia; Sedikides, Constantine; Fuhrman, Robert W. (1989). "Goals in Social Information Processing: The Case of Anticipated Interaction". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 56 (5): 680–690. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.56.5.680.
  19. ↑ Cox, William T. L.; Abramson, Lyn Y.; Devine, Patricia G.; Hollon, Steven D. (2012). "Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Depression: The Integrated Perspective" (PDF). Perspectives on Psychological Science. 7 (5): 427–449. doi:10.1177/1745691612455204. PMID 26168502. S2CID 1512121. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-03.
  20. ↑ Cox, William T. L.; Devine, Patricia G.; Bischmann, Alyssa A.; Hyde, Janet S. (2015). "Inferences About Sexual Orientation: The Roles of Stereotypes, Faces, and The Gaydar Myth". The Journal of Sex Research. 52 (8): 1–15. doi:10.1080/00224499.2015.1015714. PMC 4731319. PMID 26219212.