Postdoctoral researcher, Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage (CONCILIARE) Horizon project https://conciliare.uc.pt/ 2025- present
PhD in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, 2017-2023
PhD dissertation (with honors): Individual and intergroup determinants of social representations of bystanders to the Holocaust.
MA in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, 2013 – 2016
Visiting student, Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2015 – 2016
BA in Sociology, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, 2010 – 2013
- Collective memory and social identity
- Intergroup relations
- Historical narratives
- Antisemitism
Babińska, M., Rees, J., Bilewicz, M. (accepted for publication) Revisiting Secondary Antisemitism: Antisemitism as a Cause, Not a Consequence, of Ingroup-Serving Holocaust Distortions American Psychologist
Babińska, M., & Licata, L. (2026). Mnemonic asymmetries: How collective memory shapes and reflects intergroup relations. Current Opinion in Psychology, 67, 102150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102150
Siemiątkowski, M., Bilewicz, M., & Babińska, M. (2025). The bright side of authoritarian submission. distinct cross‐lagged effects of right‐wing authoritarianism facets on intergroup helping intentions and susceptibility to anti‐helping misinformation during wartime mobilization. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70054
Bilewicz, M., Babińska, M., Gromova, A. (2024). High rates of probable PTSD among Ukrainian war refugees: the role of intolerance of uncertainty, loss of control and subsequent discrimination. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2024.2394296
Babińska, M., & Bilewicz, M. (2023). Moral exemplars and moral disillusionment. How the perception of Poles’ behavior during the Holocaust shapes current Polish‐Israeli conflicted relations?. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 41(1), 73-91. https://doi.org/10.1002/crq.21379
Babińska, M., Bilewicz, M., Górska, P., Toruńczyk-Ruiz, S., & Wypych, M. (2022). Poles toward Ukrainians: The results of survey studies after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Nauka, 37-58.
Barna I., Kohut T., Bilewicz, M., Gyarfášová, O., Kocián, J., Mesežnikov G, Babińska M. (2022) Survey on Antisemitic prejudice In the Visegrád countries Research report. Tom Lantos Institute. ISBN 978-615-6324-06-1
Imhoff, R., Zimmer, F., Klein, O., António, J. H., Babinska, M., Bangerter, A., … & Van Prooijen, J. W. (2022). Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries. Nature human behaviour, 6(3), 392-403.
Bilewicz and, M., & Babińska, M. (2024). Past Victimization and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In M. K. Miller (Ed.), The Social Science of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action for Researchers Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197615133.003.0031
Babińska, M., & Bilewicz, M. (2018). Self-sacrifice for in-group’s history: A diachronic perspective. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e194.
Bilewicz M., Babińska M. (2018). Bystander, czyli kto? Potoczne wyobrażenia Polaków na temat stosunku do Żydów w czasie okupacji hitlerowskiej. [Bystanders – Who Are They? Poles’ Current Perceptions of Attitudes Towards Jews During the Nazi Occupation] Teksty Drugie 3. 97-116
Bilewicz, M., Mikołajczak, M., Babinska, M. (2017). Speaking about the preborn. How specific terms used in the abortion debate reflect attitudes and (de)mentalization. Personality and Individual Differences, 111, 256-262.
