Kathryn Paige Harden
Psychologist
Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden is a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology at UT, where she leads the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab and co-directs the Texas Twin Project. She is the author of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Princeton). Dr. Harden received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia and completed her clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Should genetics be used to create social policy?
Eugenics is bad - but understanding DNA is good.
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Schools ignore genetics—and that’s actually a bad thing
Almost all our school improvements fail. Here’s why.
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Nature vs. nurture, explained by a geneticist
“If 90% of children had ADHD and only 10% of children could sit still at a desk, how would we design school?”
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Your genes affect your education. Here’s why that’s controversial.
We all play the genetic lottery - and the outcome matters a lot.
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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
In an excerpt from her recent book, the behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden carefully explores a topic that's often considered taboo: how genetics affect life outcomes.