Tricia Striano, PhD

Tricia Striano, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Hunter College of The City University of New York. Her research on infant and child social and cognitive development has been recognized with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and has been supported with grants from the German Research Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Formerly, she served as Director of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for...See more

Tricia Striano, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Hunter College of The City University of New York. Her research on infant and child social and cognitive development has been recognized with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and has been supported with grants from the German Research Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Formerly, she served as Director of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Director of the Independent Research Group on Neurocognition and Development at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany. The author of over 100 research papers and edited volumes on social cognition, Dr. Striano serves on the editorial board of Infant Behavior and Development. See less