Academic Profile
Prof Hong Ying-Yi 

Professor 
Division of Strategy, Management and Organisation 
College of Business (Nanyang Business School) 
 



Email: YYHONG@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 4927 
Office: S3-01C-100 
Education
  • PhD Columbia University, New York 1994
  • MPhil Columbia University, New York 1993
  • MA Columbia University, New York 1991
  • BSocSc The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1988
Biography
HONG, Ying Yi is a Professor at the Nanyang Business School (NBS). She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1994. Before joining NBS in 2008, she had taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1994 to 2002, and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2002 to 2008. She received the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award in 2001, the Young Investigator Award (conferred by the International Society of Self and Identity) in 2004, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and elected member of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

She is currently the editor of two book series edited by Oxford University Press: Advances in Culture and Psychology and Frontiers in Culture and Psychology, associate editor of Asian Journal of Social Psychology, and serving on the editorial board of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She has published over 80 journal articles and book chapters (total citations count according to Google search on 6 Sept. 2008 is 1536, and H-index=21). Her most recent book entitled "Social Psychology of Culture" was published in 2006 by Psychology Press. This book has been adopted as textbook by instructors around the world.
Research Interests
Professor Hong's main research interests include culture and cognition, self, identity, and intergroup relations.

Representative Publications:

1. Chao, M., Chen, J., Roisman, G., & Hong, Y. (2007). Essentializing Race: Implications for bicultural individuals? cognition and physiological reactivity. Psychological Science, 18, 341-348.

2. Wong, R. Y-M., & Hong, Y. (2005). Dynamic Influences of Culture on Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma. Psychological Science, 16, 429-434.

3. Hong, Y., Coleman, J., Chan, G., Wong, R. Y. M., Chiu, C., Hansen, I. G., Lee, S., Tong, Y., & Fu, H. (2004). Predicting intergroup bias: The interactive effects of implicit theory and social identity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1035-1047.

4. Hong, Y., Chan, G., Chiu, C., Wong, R. Y. M., Hansen, I. G., Lee, S., Tong, Y., & Fu, H. (2003). How are social identities linked to self-conception and intergroup orientation? The moderating effect of implicit theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 1147-1160.

5. Hong, Y., Morris, M. W., Chiu, C., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2000). Multicultural minds: A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition. American Psychologist, 55, 709-720.
Research Grant
  • Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2009-) [by Ministry of Education (MOE)]
  • RCC (2008-) [by School Research Fund]
Current Projects
  • Cultural Perception and Adaptation
  • Development of Intercultural Competence - A Cultural Attachment Model
Selected Publications
  • Mischel, W., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Hong, Y. (2009). Toward an integrative CAPS approach to racial/ethnic relations. Journal of Personality, .
  • Hong, Y., Chao, M., & No, S. (2009). Dynamic Interracial/intercultural processes - The role of lay theories of race. Journal of Personality, .
  • Leung, A. K., Chiu, C., & Hong, Y. (2009). Cultural processes. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hong, Y. (2009). A dynamic constructivist approach to culture: Moving from describing culture to explaining cultureUnderstanding culture: Theory, research and application. United States: New York: Psychology Press.
  • Kesebir, P. & Hong, Y. (2009). The pain-buffering functions of money and social support: A motivational account. Psychological Inquiry, .
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