Judgements of discrimination as a function of group experience and contextual cues

The personal/group discrimination discrepancy (PGDD) refers to the tendency to report more discrimination against one's group than oneself. We demonst rated that the magnitude of both personal and group discrimination judgemen ts depended on group experience and cue availability in the judgement conte xt. For men, who have relatively little experience with gender discriminati on, the addition of contextual cues that highlighted workplace discriminati on produced lower estimates of both personal and group discrimination. For women, who are familiar with discrimination in general and workplace discri mination in particular, contextual cues produced higher estimates of group discrimination, but lower estimates of personal discrimination. We contend that these differences reflect realistic assessments by participants of the ir group's experiences with discrimination. Implications for conceptualizin g the PGDD are discussed.