Dr. Kathryn M. Hauschild joined the Farmingdale State College faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Fall of 2022. She is a developmental psychologist by training with expertise in early cognitive development and autism spectrum disorder. Her research work bridges the areas of developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychology to better understand how individuals gain and categorize knowledge about the people and objects in their everyday environment. This work serves her overarching goal of contributing to theoretical frameworks that account for the shared relationship between core cognitive competencies such as face perception, category knowledge, and language acquisition, which together support successful social information processing.
Courses Taught
PSY 101 Introduction to PsychologyPSY 232 Child Development
PSY 321 Child Cognitive Development
PSY 322 Understanding Neurodiversity: Autism Spectrum Disorder
PSY 360 Research Methods
PSY 372 Cognitive Psychology
Education
- 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
Publications
- Abigail P. Houck, Jared K. Richards, Talena Day, Janelle J. Goodwill, Kathryn M. Hauschild, Isha Malik and Matthew D. Lerner, Automatic and Affective Processing of Faces as Mechanisms of Passing as Non-autistic in Adolescence, Scientific Reports, 15(22850) 2025.
- Michael Figuccio and Kathryn Hauschild, Virtual Tutoring Fosters Student Engagement in Child Cognitive Development in K. Brakke and J. McIntyre (Eds.), Teaching developmental psychology: Contemporary activities and approaches, Washington, DC: The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (2025), pp. 129-140.
- Talena C. Day, Isha Malik, Sydney Boateng, Kathryn M. Hauschild and Matthew D. Lerner, Vocal Emotion Recognition in Autism: Behavioral Performance and Event-Related Potential (ERP) Response, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023, 1-14.
Awards & Honors
- Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship, 2025.
