Harry Charalambos Triandis (16 October 1926 – 1 June 2019) was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
[1] He was considered a pioneer of cross-cultural psychology and his research focused on the cognitive aspects of attitudes, norms, roles and values in different cultures.
[3][4] During the Second World War, he learned four foreign languages and developed his curiosity about the differences that exist between cultures.
In 1958, he completed his doctoral education in Social Psychology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Triandis's early contributions to the field of cross-cultural psychology involved the development of several culture-sensitive measurements.