A recent study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin explored how the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests impacted racial bias in the United States. Researchers found that implicit racial bias—bias that operates subconsciously—decreased rapidly following the protests. However, this drop was temporary, and the decrease did not persist over time. Interestingly, explicit bias, which refers to consciously held attitudes, did not show a similar reduction. The death of George Floyd in May 2020 and the subsequent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement raised widespread pub…
