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He is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, where he runs the Center for Research on Prejudice. He is also Chair of the Scholarly Advisory Board of the Dialogue Forum, an NGO which focuses on Polish-Jewish relations. His main research interests include the psychology of stereotypes and prejudice, and, in particular, the study of hate speech, antisemitism and the collective memory of the Holocaust. He has also conducted research on homonegativity (prejudice against LGBT+ people), anti-Muslim prejudice and sexism. He is the author of the concept of the three-factorial structure of antisemitism (Bilewicz et al., 2013, Political Psychology), a model widely used in psychological research on prejudice against Jews. He is also the originator of a number of prejudice-reducing interventions based on the contact hypothesis and the concept of moral exemplars. He was a Fulbright scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York and a DAAD scholar at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. He has repeatedly presented reports on the state of anti-Semitism in Poland before the Committee on National and Ethnic Minorities of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. In 2013-2016, he was an expert of the Consultative Council for Counteracting Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance at the Ministry of Administration and Digitization. He currently sits on the Rector's Committee for Preventing Discrimination at the University of Warsaw.

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