Benoît Monin received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University, after earning an M.Sc. in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. He completed his undergraduate studies at ESSEC, a business school near Paris, and at the Lycée Privé Sainte Geneviève, in Versailles. Monin has taught in the Department of Psychology at Stanford since 2001. In 2008 he joined the Organizational Behavior area at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Monin received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and is currently a Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar. He has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan and at the University of Paris X. He serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and his work has appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.