Hong Ying-yi

Professor Hong Ying-yi is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Management and Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Business Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). A globally renowned expert in culture and cognition, multicultural identity, intergroup relations, and cultural neuroscience, she has taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Nanyang Technological University.

• Bachelor of Social Science (CUHK)
• PhD (Columbia University)

Her research investigates multicultural influences on psychological processes, including identity formation during sociopolitical transitions, intergroup dynamics in refugee crises, and sociocultural norm learning mechanisms. The Culture Lab under her direction employs pluralistic methods such as experimental priming, longitudinal studies, and behavioral games.

Recent publications address Hong Kong's 2019 unrest, stress reactivity in sociocultural adaptation, and refugee-related threat perceptions. Awards include Fellow of the Asian Association of Social Psychology, RGC Senior Research Fellow, and Stanford's CASBS fellowship. She has edited influential volumes like The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity and advised international research panels (OECD PISA, Singapore ETH-Centre).

Scientific Awards:

• RGC Senior Research Fellow (2021)
• Outstanding Contributions to Cultural Psychology Award (2020)
• Nanyang Award for Research Excellence (2013)
• Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award (2001)
• ISSID Outstanding Early Career Award (2003)
• Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award (2015)
• Stanford CASBS Fellow (2018)

Her students include PhD researchers Letitia Lee, Yuanyan Qiang, Dominic Amstutz, and Xinquan Lin. The lab's theoretical contributions encompass Dynamic Constructivist Theory, Multicultural Mind and Self Approach, and Cultural Attachment Theory.