[1] She was previously the provost at Princeton University[2] and Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs.
[3] Prentice was raised in Oakland, California, where she was educated at state schools and learned the piano.
[6] She writes that her early focus was on attachments to both abstract views and concrete items; she then researched the way in which social groups form a "dynamic system" that both reflects and is affected by the way in which their members act.
She has applied her research to methods of helping people to alter problematic behaviors such as overconsumption of alcohol, gender stereotyping, and violence against domestic partners.
Prentice is married to Jeremy Adelman, who leads the global history lab at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities; they have three children.