Tricia Striano

Tricia Striano is an American psychologist who is the head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Career
Striano was born in Weymouth Massachusetts. She obtained her BA in psychology from The College of the Holy Cross. She obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from Emory University in 2000, after which she became Head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. In 2004,

Tricia Striano received the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Sanctae Crucis Award of the College of the Holy Cross. She built the Neurocognition and Development Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Leipzig.

In 2008, Striano obtained her Habilitation from the University of Osnabruck in Germany. Tricia Striano founded Tricia Striano Inc and brand AisforBanana®.

Research
Striano's main area of research is social cognition and learning in infancy, using brain and behavioral measures.