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DATE: October 3, 2026 at 05:20AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Removing Confederate Monuments Does Not Seem to Change Racial Bias
Source: PsyPost
A recent investigation into whether the presence or removal of Confederate monuments affects racial prejudice found no evidence that these statues cause changes in people's biases. The findings suggest that while these monuments are deeply tied to historical inequalities, simply being exposed to them does not directly alter subconscious or conscious racial attitudes, and there is no evidence that removing them from public squares does either.
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DATE: September 30, 2026 at 10:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Removing Confederate monuments did not measurably change racial bias, study finds
A recent investigation into whether the presence or removal of Confederate monuments affects racial prejudice found no evidence that these statues cause changes in people’s biases. The findings suggest that while these monuments are deeply tied to historical inequalities, simply being exposed to them does not directly alter subconscious or conscious racial attitudes, and there is no evidence that removing them from public squares does either. The research was published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Confederate monuments are statues and memorials erected to honor the pro-slavery Southern states that seceded during the American Civil War. In recent years, many communities have debated whether to remove these statues, viewing them as symbols of white supremacy that continue to harm marginalized groups. Psychologists often distinguish between two types of prejudice that such environments might influence. Explicit bias involves conscious beliefs and feelings about a racial group, while implicit bias involves subconscious, automatic associations that people might not even realize they hold.
Previous research suggested that implicit bias is driven by local environments and historical oppression. For instance, a 2019 study found that white residents in Southern counties with historically higher rates of slavery still display stronger implicit racial bias today. The idea that changes in community environments can shift people’s biases is supported by other research. For example, a separate 2019 study found that antigay bias declined roughly twice as fast after states legalized same-sex marriage, suggesting that changes in public institutions can shift community attitudes.
The new research, led by Maximilian A. Primbs of Radboud University, was designed to test whether this idea applies to Confederate symbols to see if their physical presence or removal actually changes residents’ racial biases. Primbs told PsyPost that his motivation stemmed from the cultural climate a few years ago. “I had previously done research on the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement and discussions about Confederate monuments and what to do with them were widespread in 2020/2021,” he explained.
“These discussions eventually reached Europe, which had its own subsequent reckoning with colonial monuments,” Primbs continued. “Monuments were being graffitied, removed, or in one case even thrown in a river. I want to contribute to these debates by investigating some of the effects of these monuments.”
His 2024 study, covered by PsyPost, indicated that the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests led to a rapid, immediate decrease in implicit racial bias among white Americans, though this reduction was temporary. These patterns are consistent with the Bias of Crowds model, proposed in 2017, which holds that physical and social cues in an area constantly activate stereotypes, shaping the prejudices of the people living there.
To investigate the impact of Confederate monuments, the researchers conducted four distinct studies. The first study analyzed a massive dataset from the Project Implicit database, comparing it with records of Confederate monuments from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The sample included up to 1.75 million white participants across the United States. The scientists looked at geographic areas such as counties and commuting zones, tracking whether areas with monuments had higher aggregate levels of bias, adjusting for variables like population density and the proportion of Black residents.
The authors tracked changes in bias around the time specific monuments were taken down, looking for immediate or delayed drops in prejudice. The results did not show any reliable shifts in implicit or explicit racial bias following a monument’s removal. While there were some minor correlations between the number of monuments and bias levels, the results were inconsistent and sometimes even pointed in the opposite direction of what the theory predicted. The data provided no evidence that taking a statue down caused a change in the local community’s racial attitudes.
Notably, these results conflict with a 2019 study by two of the current paper’s co-authors, Heidi A. Vuletich and B. Keith Payne, which found that college campuses displaying Confederate monuments had higher average implicit bias among students. The researchers suggest three possible explanations for the discrepancy: the earlier result might have been a false positive, the correlation might have reflected an unmeasured third factor, or college campuses might simply operate differently than wider communities.
“We very strongly expected to find effects of Confederate monuments,” Primbs noted. “Many prior studies have found that historical inequalities like slavery, sundown towns, or the Ku Klux Klan shaped social and cultural norms and structures within geographical regions in ways that caused biased attitudes to persist over generations.”
“Confederate monuments are a physical manifestation of these White Supremacist beliefs, and therefore should have shown a similar link,” he added. “To me, this suggests that perhaps social and cultural environments are more important in determining racial biases than physical environments.”
Because observational data can be influenced by many outside factors, the scientists designed a second study to test the effect in a controlled laboratory setting. They recruited 1,161 white participants and 416 Black participants for an online experiment. Half of the participants were randomly assigned to read an educational text explaining the racist history and symbolism of the Confederacy.
After reading the text, this group took an Implicit Association Test with images of Confederate monuments displayed in the background. This test measures the speed at which a person associates positive or negative words with Black or White faces, serving as a standard metric for subconscious prejudice. The control group simply took a standard version of the test.
The researchers found no statistically significant differences in implicit or explicit bias between the group exposed to the monuments and the control group, for both white and Black participants. Further statistical analyses, known as equivalence tests, confirmed that any potential effect of the monuments was smaller than a conventionally small effect size, indicating that exposure does not meaningfully alter bias.
A third study utilized a different measure of subconscious prejudice called the Affect Misattribution Procedure. In this task, participants briefly see a photo of a Black or White face, followed immediately by an abstract painting that they must rate as pleasant or unpleasant. The idea is that feelings about the face subtly influence judgments about the painting. In a sample of 537 participants, those who viewed a slideshow of Confederate monuments and described their associations with them showed no statistically significant differences in bias compared to a control group.
To see if these laboratory findings held up in the real world, the researchers conducted a final field experiment in Tilburg, a city in the Netherlands. Instead of Confederate monuments, they used a local colonial monument, a 1926 statue showing the Catholic missionary Peerke Donders standing over a kneeling Black man from colonial Suriname, which critics say reflects colonial racial hierarchies. The scientists approached 174 white Dutch pedestrians passing by either the colonial monument or a visually similar control monument and asked them to fill out a survey measuring their conscious racial biases and policy preferences.
Half of the participants were given an informational text explaining the colonial monument’s historical meaning before answering the questions. Similar to the previous experiments, neither the physical presence of the monument nor the provided historical context altered the participants’ explicit racial attitudes. Whether people were standing in front of the colonial statue or a statue of the Virgin Mary, their self-reported feelings about minority groups remained similar.
There are a few things to keep in mind regarding these findings. The lack of an effect on psychological bias does not mean that monuments are harmless or lack historical importance. “I’d like to make clear that Confederate monuments not affecting racial bias does not mean that Confederate monuments do not have negative effects,” Primbs said, noting that prior research indicates these statues are often perceived as markers of inequality by Black Americans and have been linked to anti-Black hate crimes.
The authors suggest that the transmission of bias might rely more on interpersonal interactions, community norms, and social behaviors than on isolated physical structures. People might absorb prejudice by observing how others act and speak rather than by walking past a monument.
“Confederate monuments are a physical reminder of historical inequality, a built structure commemorating past evil committed,” Primbs said. “Yet, simply removing the monuments had no effects on racial bias. The key takeaway for a lay person might be that undoing past wrongs is not as simple as removing a monument.”
“Discrimination has become deeply entrenched in societal systems, and to tackle it successfully we need to make changes to the system,” he continued.
Future research might explore other environmental cues that are more socially active or frequently discussed to see what actually sustains regional biases. “This research is part of a research line that highlights the historical origins of present-day racial attitudes,” Primbs noted.
“We’re currently pursuing further research that examines how these historical inequalities shape present-day behaviors, for example by affecting how Black and White people interact and share space,” he concluded.
The study, “On Confederate Monuments, Their Removal and Racial Bias,” was authored by Maximilian A. Primbs, Nicolas Sommet, Gijsbert Bijlstra, B. Keith Payne, Ruddy Faure, Tessa A. M. Lansu, Rob W. Holland, Amanda B. Diekman, and Heidi A. Vuletich.
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https://www.europesays.com/gbr/cam/969/ Cambridgeshire facial recognition: Cllr Hunt challenges police as Commissioner backs national rollout #APCC #biometrics #Cambridge #Cambridgeshire #CambridgeshirePolice #CambridgeshirePoliceAndCrimePanel #CivilLiberties #CommunityPolicing #DarrylPreston #Equality #FacialRecognition #fenland #huntingdon #LFR #LiveFacialRecognition #NathanHunt #Peterborough #PeterboroughCityCentre #PoliceAndCrimeCommissioner #Policing #privacy #RacialBias
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Lactose Intolerance as a Social Construct: Racial and Historical Influences
📰 Original title: Lactose intolerance is actually the human norm
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/lactose-intolerance-as-a-social-construct-racial-and-historical-influences.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
#science #lactoseintolerance #nutritionalimperialism #racialbias
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Privacy concerns raised over Australian-first live AI police face scanning trial
An Australian-first trial of live AI facial recognition technology by a police force has been criticised by privacy…
#Australia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Austrlia #facialrecognition #facialscanning #NEC'sNeofacem40 #privacy #racialbias #racialprofiling
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/631108/ Privacy concerns raised over Australian-first live AI police face scanning trial #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #Éire #FacialRecognition #FacialScanning #IE #Ireland #NEC'sNeofaceM40 #Privacy #RacialBias #RacialProfiling #Technology
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"The Home Office knew an AI tool that will be used to check the age of small boat migrants was flawed but pressed ahead with its roll-out anyway, The Independent can reveal.
The AI-powered technology, which predicts someone’s age based on their facial features, judges teenagers to be adults in error, according to a leaked report the Home Office tried to withhold.
The secret report also found the technology is least accurate when trying to age migrants from countries such as Eritrea and Sudan – which have the highest number of small boat migrants coming to the UK – amid accusations that the technology has “baked-in racial bias”.
It warned that error rates are particularly high for female child migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, at 4.6 years on average – meaning a 14-year-old girl could be predicted to be an adult.
The report, which was produced in April 2025 by civil servants in charge of the biometrics programme, also warned the tech could be less accurate for people with visible ageing caused by “stress of travel”.
Separately, an audit by Lighthouse Reports of public data on the government’s chosen AI provider shows that its tech misclassified more than a third of 16-year-olds as adults and, in some tests, was shown to give the wrong assessment in 70 per cent of cases.
Scientific advisors to the Home Office have now spoken out for the first time, telling this publication that they felt the government is rushing to adopt the AI tech for political reasons and chose not to consult them to avoid criticism.
Professor Tim Cole, at UCL’s Institute of Child Health, suggested the department is pursuing the technology despite being aware that it is “hideously inaccurate”."
#UK #AI #FacialRecognition #RacialBias #Migrants #HumanRights #Biometrics #AgeVerification
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Judge Rules That Conviction Of #Pimp Behind the #OrangeCurtain Was Fraught By Jury Exposure To Prosecutor's #RacialBias
2017 Human trafficking sentence of 99 Years To Life of #thirdstrike defendent thrown out on #appeal due to alleged expressed #racism of #cops & judge at trial in #OrangeCounty #California
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/06/17/oc-judge-throws-out-human-trafficking-conviction-of-third-striker-because-of-racial-bias/?share=kknohmcriawccicatj6e #GiftLink #SharedStory #LegalProceedings #CriminalJustice
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Rationality's Shadow: Who Gets to Define 'Smart'?
New research shows how 'smart' is defined, linking it to race and gender bias, affecting job opportunities and perceptions. See how it impacts you.
#RationalityBias, #GenderInTech, #RacialBias, #JobEquality, #SmartDefinition
https://newsletter.tf/smartness-definition-linked-to-race-and-gender-bias/
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Research reveals that jobs seen as 'smart' often have fewer women and Black people, and more white people. This shows a bias in how we define intelligence.
#RationalityBias, #GenderInTech, #RacialBias, #JobEquality, #SmartDefinition
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How long does it take to execute a child in the United States of America?
In 1944, the state of South Carolina needed only 83 days to arrest a 14-year-old Black boy named George Stinney Jr. and then put him to death.
#GeorgeStinneyJr #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #blackamericanhistory #blackhistorymatters #racialequity #racialbias #racialequality #SystemicRacism #CriminalJustice #JuvenileJustice #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #PostConviction #JusticeSystem
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"This is serious and, in the words of my father, #MLK, we must "organize our strengths into compelling power" like never before. We need a situation room to accompany our organizing efforts."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYsDLMluWdR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
#strategyiseverything #yourvotematters #thestruggleisreal #racialbias #racism #gerrymandering #vote #election #fightthepower #eattherich #allpowertothepeople #nopowertothepigs -
Justice Brett #Kavanaugh & Chief Justice #JohnRoberts broke from their #conservative colleagues in siding with Pitchford.
Justice Neil M. #Gorsuch wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel A. #Alito Jr. & #AmyConeyBarrett.
“Put simply, Mr. Pitchford’s account of a muzzled defense team is hard to square with the record. But even if it were a plausible account, that still would not be enough,” Gorsuch wrote. -
In 2019, #SCOTUS reversed the conviction of another #Black #Mississippi man, Curtis Flowers, whom #DougEvans also prosecuted in a capital murder case. Flowers was tried 6 times. The justices found, 7-2, that Evans — now retired — had worked relentlessly to keep Black people off the #jury.
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For two decades, Pitchford had argued his conviction was not valid, pointing to what he said were racially biased selections of the jurors who heard the case. Only one of the 12 jurors was #Black — in a county that was 40% African American, according to Pitchford’s filings. More troubling, Pitchford says, is that those jurors were selected by #DougEvans, a prosecutor with a history of maneuvering to keep Black people off juries.
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It is the second time #SCOTUS has effectively thrown out a #capital case after the same #Mississippi prosecutor was accused of excluding #Black #jurors.
Pitchford was convicted of murder in 2006 & sentenced to death by a jury in Mississippi. It was his partner who fatally shot shop owner Reuben Britt with a .22-caliber pistol during the armed robbery, acc/to court filings. Pitchford, who was 18 at the time of the robbery, was accused of being an accomplice.
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#SCOTUS Thursday sided with a Mississippi man who was sent to #DeathRow for his role in the murder of shopkeeper, upholding a lower court’s decision to vacate his conviction because of potential #RacialBias in #JurySelection.
In a 5-4 vote, the court found #TerryPitchford, who is #Black, did not have the opportunity to challenge the dismissal of 4 Black potential #jurors.#law #racism
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Supreme Court Decision Reshapes Voting Rights Landscape, Local Impact Magnified
New Supreme Court rule makes it harder to prove racial bias in voting maps. Affects 17 lawsuits and minority voters.
#VotingRightsAct, #SupremeCourt, #ElectionLaw, #RacialBias, #VoterRights
https://newsletter.tf/supreme-court-voting-rights-law-lawsuits-impact/
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The Supreme Court has made it harder to challenge voting maps for racial bias. This ruling impacts at least 17 lawsuits across the country.
#VotingRightsAct, #SupremeCourt, #ElectionLaw, #RacialBias, #VoterRights
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Welfare's Shifting Tides: From Population Control to Racial Bias
New US study shows beliefs about Black recipients decrease welfare support. See how race impacts social programs and who benefits.
#WelfareDebate, #RacialBias, #USPolitics, #SocialPrograms, #PublicOpinion
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Beliefs about Black people receiving welfare in the US can lower support for these programs by up to 8% for every 1% increase in perceived recipients.
#WelfareDebate, #RacialBias, #USPolitics, #SocialPrograms, #PublicOpinion
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Powerful talk by psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt on how our brains categorize and produce unconscious racial bias — and how to disrupt it. Essential, clear, and urgent. #RacialBias #UnconsciousBias #ImplicitBias #AntiRacism #Equity #SocialPsychology #Diversity #Inclusion #Education #JenniferEberhardt #English
https://jetstream.watch/videos/watch/1b90aa29-3ba9-4467-b70b-de777ad7dc25 -
Texas Senate Race: Allegations of Racial Tactics Emerge in Heated Democratic Primary
Texas Senate Democratic primary heats up as Rep. Jasmine Crockett alleges racial tactics from opponents. Who is affected and what happens next?
#TexasSenate, #JasmineCrockett, #DemocraticPrimary, #CampaignTactics, #RacialBias
https://newsletter.tf/texas-senate-race-jasmine-crockett-racial-tactics-democratic-primary/
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Texas Senate Democratic primary sees accusations of racial tactics. Rep. Jasmine Crockett claims opponents are using racially biased ads, raising tensions before the vote.
#TexasSenate, #JasmineCrockett, #DemocraticPrimary, #CampaignTactics, #RacialBias
https://newsletter.tf/texas-senate-race-jasmine-crockett-racial-tactics-democratic-primary/
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In deutschen Medien kein Thema. Fast drei Millionen Menschen in mehreren Provinzen sind in Thailand von einer Flut betroffen.
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40058864
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Massachusetts Advocates Resist Dystopian Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Bill
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CW: Pinup nudity link, racial bias, AI moderation
If anybody's looking for an interesting example of algorithmic bias in automated moderation and censorship, I think I've spotted one.
Black woman from a 1966 pinup magazine rejected from a Reddit group for nudes: "Please do not post AI generated images."
Receipts at ErosBlog.
https://www.erosblog.com/2025/09/25/pornocalypse-ai-black-pinups/
#AI #Pornocalypse #AlgorithmicBias #Pinup #Nude #Nudes #Black #BlackSkin #Bias #RacialBias #BlackWoman #Brown #Reddit #Moderation #Censorship
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20 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a slate of new documentaries take a look at how things are today. @IndieWire reviews the films, including Spike Lee's "God Takes Care of Fools and Babies,” which is part of a three-part Netflix series, Traci A. Curry and Ryan Coogler's "Race Against Time," and Peacock's "Hope in High Water." "'Race Against Time' really starts cooking when it tackles the racial bias evident in the disaster response and the way it was covered," writes Ben Travers. "One neighbor talks about how a nursing home full of stranded residents was ignored until they replaced the Black people on the roof, crying for help, with white people."
#Movies #Film #Documentary #HurricaneKatrina #RacialBias #RacismInAmerica #BlackHistory
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CPH Daily Bulletin 7/13/2025
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#California courts owe defendants a jury of their peers. It’s still too hard to get one
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/07/california-courts-jury-pay-peers/
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🚨Ah, the ancient art of blaming #JavaScript and #cookies for all evils. Apparently, racial bias is now hiding in plain sight, but you'll need to summon the mystical powers of JS to see it. 🍪 Because data without cookies is like a fortune cookie without a fortune—utterly pointless. 🥠
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5357 #RacialBias #DataScience #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
What's the use of a police watchdog that will not even consider the possiblity of racial bias in a horrific case like this?
Actor Reece Richards condemns police watchdog over race decision on arrest | Independent Office for Police Conduct | The Guardian
#ReeceRichards #MetropolitanPolice #Racism #Police #IndependentOffoceForPoliceConduct #IOPC #RacialBias
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BBC: Google agrees to pay $28m in racial bias lawsuit. “Google has agreed to pay $28m (£21.5m) to settle a lawsuit that claimed white and Asian employees were given better pay and career opportunities than workers from other ethnic backgrounds, a law firm representing claimants says. The technology giant confirmed it had ‘reached a resolution’ but rejected the allegations made against it.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/bbc-google-agrees-to-pay-28m-in-racial-bias-lawsuit/
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I think my maths is reasonably correct. Just watching the Women's Champion League game between Real Madrid and Arsenal and it seems that so far in this game that the overwhelming minority racially (4.5%) of the players is the best rated goal scorer. I don't bet on the tournament but with these stats and the bookies odds generally betting on black is often a good move.The pitch is also in a terrible state #football #soccer #womenschampionsleague #stats #racialbias #diversity #whitegirls #halftime
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How to Build a #Human
A #Forensics Company Tells #Cops It Can Use #DNA to Predict a #Suspect’s Face. #Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen #RacialBias.
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/02/forensic-dna-phenotyping-parabon-nanolabs-police/
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Diversity initiatives heighten perceptions of anti-White bias https://www.psypost.org/diversity-initiatives-heighten-perceptions-of-anti-white-bias/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Diversity #RacialBias #SocialJustice #Inclusion #AntiBias
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Google searches for racial slurs are higher in areas where people are worried about disease https://www.psypost.org/google-searches-for-racial-slurs-are-higher-in-areas-where-people-are-worried-about-disease/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #RacialBias #AntiBlackBias #PathogenStress #SocialPsychology #GoogleSearches