Kathryn Paige Harden

Kathryn Paige Harden masanin ilimin halayyar dan adam ce kuma Masanin halayyar halittar da ke Farfesa a fannin ilimin halayya a Jami'ar Texas a Austin . Tana jagorantar dakin gwaje-gwaje na Developmental Behavior Genetics kuma tana aiki a matsayin co-direkta na Texas Twin Project .  Har ila yau, ita ma Mataimakiyar Bincike ce a Jami'ar Texas a Cibiyar Binciken Jama'a ta Austin kuma abokiyar Binciken Gidauniyar Jacobs. Harden ya ba da shawarar karuwar rawar da bincike na kwayoyin halitta ke takawa a cikin ilimin halayyar dan adam da kimiyyar zamantakewa.

Harden ta sami digirin digirgir a fannin ilimin halayyar ɗan adam daga Jami'ar Virginia a shekarar 2009 a ƙarƙashin Eric Turkheimer .  Ta fara aiki a Jami'ar Texas a wannan shekarar. 

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
Harden da ƙanenta Micah sun girma a cikin yanayi mai ra'ayin mazan jiya a wani yanki na Memphis, Tennessee . Kakannin kakanninta na uba ' yan Pentecostal ne waɗanda suka yi aiki a matsayin manoma da ma'aikatan bututun mai a Texas . Mahaifinta matukin jirgi ne a Rundunar Sojan Ruwa ta Amurka wanda daga baya ya tashi da jiragen sama zuwa FedEx . 

Ta sami cikakken tallafin karatu a Jami'ar Furman, wacce a da kwalejin Baptist ce a South Carolina, inda ta yi aiki a wani dakin gwaje-gwaje kan binciken kwayoyin halitta na beraye. Ta kammala karatun digiri na farko a fannin ilimin halayyar dan adam magna cum laude kuma tana karatun Phi Beta Kappa .  Ta sami digiri na biyu na MA da kuma digiri na uku na Ph.D. a fannin ilimin halayyar dan adam na asibiti daga Jami'ar Virginia a shekarar 2005 da 2009 bi da bi. Mai ba ta shawara kan digiri na uku shi ne Eric Turkheimer . "Kathryn Paige Harden Curriculum Vitae (April 2021)" (PDF). University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.

 Bincike 
Binciken Harden ya mayar da hankali kan amfani da bayanan kwayoyin halitta don fahimtar bambance-bambancen da ke tsakanin mutum da yaro a ci gaban yaro da matashi. Ta wallafa takardu kan illolin tunani na farkon balaga da farkon jima'i, kan laifuka da ɗabi'un da ba su dace da zamantakewa ba, da kuma kan hankali da nasarar ilimi.    An sanya ayyukan jima'i na yarda a lokacin samartaka cikin tsarin Jima'i-Positive a cikin ɗaya daga cikin bincikenta, domin a ci gaba da kasancewa mai kyau da kuma al'ada game da halayen jima'i a lokacin samartaka. 

Ta sami kyautar Ƙungiyar Ilimin Halayyar Dan Adam ta Amurka don Gudummawar Kimiyya a Farkon Aiki ga Ilimin Halayyar Dan Adam a shekarar 2017, don girmama bincikenta kan "yadda ake haɗa ilimin kwayoyin halitta tare da fahimtar asibiti da ci gaba na gargajiya cikin halayen ɗan adam". 

A cikin wani edita na 2018 a jaridar New York Times, Harden ya yi jayayya cewa binciken kwayoyin halitta kan bambance-bambancen ɗan adam ya dace da manufofin zamantakewa masu ci gaba da daidaito .  A watan Satumba na 2021, Harden ya buga wani littafi kan wannan ra'ayi, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality, wanda ya taƙaita tarihi da kuma gaba-gaba na zamani na binciken kwayoyin halitta kuma ya yi jayayya cewa "kimiyyar kwayoyin halitta na iya taimakawa wajen ƙirƙirar al'umma mai adalci da daidaito".  

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