Professor Hong Ying-yi is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Psychology. She earned her PhD from Columbia University and has held academic positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her research is deeply informed by her diverse international experiences.
As the editor of more than ten books, including The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity, which received the 2015 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award, Professor Hong has authored over 250 journal articles and book chapters. Her work is widely cited across psychology, business, and education.
Her pioneering contributions have garnered numerous honors, such as the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award (2001), the International Society for Self and Identity Outstanding Early Career Award (2004), and the Nanyang Award for Research Excellence (2013). She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Asian Association of Social Psychology, and Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Recent distinctions include the Outstanding Contributions to Cultural Psychology Award (2020) and the Senior Research Fellow Scheme award from Hong Kong’s Research Grant Council (2021/22). Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2025–2028), edits the Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology series (Oxford University Press), and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology.
Professor Hong’s primary research interests encompass culture and cognition, identity, intergroup relations, decision making, and political psychology. Committed to interdisciplinary inquiry, she integrates social psychology, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and genetics to investigate identity and intergroup dynamics.