Ying-yi Hong is a Professor at the Nanyang Business School of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1994 and had taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1994 to 2002 before moving to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she taught for eight years. 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.

Her main research interests include culture and cognition, self, identity, and intergroup relations. She is currently the editor of Advances 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 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her most recent book entitled "Social Psychology of Culture" was published in 2006 by Psychology Press. This book is useful for teaching culture and psychology.