Rate My Professor Matthew Winslow

Dr. Matthew Winslow serves as Professor in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Kentucky University, where he also holds the position of Director of Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning Initiatives. He earned a B.S. from Macalester College, an M.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Winslow joined the EKU faculty in 1998 and has since advanced pedagogical innovation by helping found the Faculty Innovator program, facilitating more than 40 workshops on teaching strategies, and leading professional learning communities. His administrative contributions include serving as Chair of the Faculty Senate, membership in the Society of Foundation Professors (2023-2025), and participation in the Essential Education Transformation Committee. He has taught a wide array of courses, including Introduction to Psychology, Social Psychology, Capstone: Empathy, Capstone: Prejudice, Political Psychology, Psychological Research in Human Sexuality, Psychology and Politics of the Legal System, Good & Evil, Information Literacy in Psychology, and Meditation, Compassion, and Science. Winslow has also led study abroad programs in Austria focused on psychology and international finance/risk management integration.

Winslow's research specializations include empathy, pedagogy, general education, intergroup relations, person perception, political psychology, prejudice, and stereotyping, with applications to impression management and formation. Notable publications encompass "Wicked general education: Transforming higher education to address 21st century challenges" (in press, Journal of General Education); "Ungrading general education: Preliminary results from a pilot study" (2023, co-authored in Relationship-Rich Education in Teaching & Learning: Proceedings of the 2022 Pedagogicon); "Not my marriage: Third-person perception and the effects of legalizing same-sex marriage" (2012, Social Psychology); "African Americans’ lay theories about the detection of prejudice and non-prejudice" (2011, Journal of Black Studies); "Reactions to the imputation of prejudice" (2004, Basic and Applied Social Psychology); and "Inducing hypocrisy as a means for encouraging young adults to use condoms" (1994, co-authored in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin). He has contributed to open educational resources, including authoring "Discover Psychology 2.0: A Brief Introductory Text" for the Noba Project, and initiatives on ungrading general education, teaching data science via real-world problems, and academic integrity preservation. Major awards include the Acorn Award from the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (2017), Phi Kappa Phi (2019), and the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences Awesome Advisor Award (2022).