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SUMMARY:Facing the epidemics of hate speech. - Professor Michal Bilewicz (
 University of Warsaw)
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CONTACT:David Young
DESCRIPTION:The effects of hate speech on racism\, intergroup violence or 
 political radicalization have been a primary focus of social psychological
  theorizing for decades (Allport\, 1954). The recent development of electr
 onic means of communication (social media\, news websites\, citizen journa
 lism) made hate speech one of the most pressing societal issues and a fert
 ile ground for social psychological theorizing and research. Social psycho
 logical research has shown that overhearing hate speech\, a derogatory lan
 guage about minorities or immigrant groups\, increases stereotyping\, disc
 rimination and even subtle biases and implicit forms of prejudice (see: Bi
 lewicz & Soral\, 2020). There are three key processes that are responsible
  for this “epidemics of hate speech”: behavioral (desensitization)\, n
 ormative (change in perceived norms) and emotional (spread of contempt ins
 tead of empathy). In this presentation I would like to present recent stud
 ies looking at the potential psychological ways of confronting hate speech
  epidemics\, including interventions in online and offline environments.\n
 \nMichał Bilewicz is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Universi
 ty of Warsaw where he directs the Center for Research on Prejudice. His re
 search concerns social psychology of intergroup relations\, post-conflict 
 reconciliation\, and prejudice. Since 2009 he leads the Polish Prejudice S
 urvey\, a largest cyclical representative survey program on intergroup rel
 ations in Poland. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the New School for Social 
 Research\, a DAAD post-doctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schiller Unive
 rsity in Jena and visiting professor at the University of Leipzig. Current
 ly he leads a large research project on hate speech epidemics funded by th
 e Polish National Science Centre.\n\nZoom link here: https://www.psychol.c
 am.ac.uk/study/current-postgraduates/spss-joining-details
LOCATION:via zoom 
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