Kathryn Hauschild

Kathryn Hauschild is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Farmingdale State College since Fall 2022. She specializes in developmental psychology, focusing on early cognitive development and autism spectrum disorder. Her research integrates developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychology to explore how individuals acquire knowledge about people and objects in their environment.

• Ph.D., Psychology (Developmental), University of Pittsburgh, 2018
• M.S., Psychology (Developmental), University of Pittsburgh, 2014
• B.S., Psychology (Neuroscience), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2011

Her work emphasizes the relationship between core cognitive competencies like face perception, category knowledge, and language acquisition in social information processing. Courses taught include Introduction to Psychology, Child Development, Child Cognitive Development, and Understanding Neurodiversity: Autism Spectrum Disorder.