Patricia W. Linville is an Associate Professor at the Fuqua School of Business and Psychology Department at Duke University. She taught nine years in the Psychology Department at Yale University before returning to Duke, where she had earlier earned her Ph.D.

Professor Linville's research area is social cognition, focusing on a wide variety of topics such as stereotyping and intergroup relations, attention and inhibitory processes, social judgment and decision making, self-concept, stress and coping, negotiation, teams, and the social Psychology of organizations.

She is the recipient of the Gordon Allport Prize for best paper of the year on intergroup relations, awarded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and she has served on the Editorial Review Board of "JPSP: Attitudes and Social Cognition," "JPSP: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes," and "Social Cognition."