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 ==