Now you see it, now you don't: Explicit versus implicit measures of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy

When making explicit self-report ratings, members of status- and racial-min ority groups report less personal experience with discrimination than that encountered by their group-a phenomenon called the personal/group discrimin ation discrepancy (PGDD). This study provides evidence, for the first time, that the PGDD may be, in part, a product of the procedure used to measure it. White women and men completed explicit and implicit measures of persona l and group discrimination based on sex. The PCDD surfaced among women in t he explicit measures, but not in the implicit measures. These findings sugg est that explicit and implicit measures might provide different assessments of experience with discrimination.