https://www.scmp.com/rss/501834/feed Frendi Li, PhD, is an associate professor of practice in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com We are in the third month of social unrest in Hong Kong. Although the crisis is political, many psychological processes have contributed to its evolution. We’ll just highlight a few here. First, polarisation, dehumanisation and radicalisation. We’ve seen rapid polarisation and escalation in both the physical force and rhetoric used by police and protesters. Society has been divided into police and protesters, black shirts and white shirts, or blue ribbons and yellow ribbons – a legacy of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3023296/angry-fearful-hong-kong-needs-call-truce-and-get-some-sleep-even-if?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3023296/angry-fearful-hong-kong-needs-call-truce-and-get-some-sleep-even-if?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Aug 2019 01:00:18 +0000