Education
Born in Oklahoma and brought up in Colorado, Hayne attended Colorado College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, and Rutgers University, from where she graduated Mississippi and Doctor of Philosophy.
Born in Oklahoma and brought up in Colorado, Hayne attended Colorado College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, and Rutgers University, from where she graduated Mississippi and Doctor of Philosophy.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2002, and is also a fellow of the American Psychological Society. She is the first female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago. She spent four years as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University, and moved to New Zealand in 1992 to join the University of Otago as a lecturer in the Psychology Department.
She served on the Academic Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Marsden Fund Council, and the New Zealand National Science Panel.
She is an associate editor of Psychological Review and of the New Zealand Journal of Psychology. Hayne is leading researcher in memory development in infants, children, adolescents and adults and her work has been cited in legal proceedings both nationally and internationally.