Kathryn Paige Harden is an American psychologist and behavioral geneticist who is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
[7] Harden and her younger brother Micah grew up in a conservative environment in an exurb of Memphis, Tennessee.
[1] She received a full scholarship to Furman University, a formerly Baptist college in South Carolina, where she worked in a lab on rodent genetics research.
[6] Harden's research has focused on using genetic data to understand individual differences in child and adolescent development.
[11] In a 2018 editorial in the New York Times, Harden argued that genetic research on human individual differences is compatible with progressive and egalitarian social goals.