Kathryn Paige Harden

Kathryn Paige Harden

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Speaker Profile

Kathryn Paige Harden is a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology at UT Austin, where she leads the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab and co-directs the Texas Twin Project. She is the author of  which describes how genetics can help create a more just and equal society (watch Harden鈥檚 introduction to the book ). 

Harden received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia and completed her clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School before moving to Austin in 2009. Her research and writing have been featured in the New York TimesWashington Post, and The Atlantic, and Huffington Post, among others. She was honored by the American Psychological Association for her distinguished scientific contributions to the study of genetics and human individual differences. You can read a  profile of her here.

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