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Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes

Weick, M.; Couturier, L.-C.; Vasiljevic, M.; Ross, P.; Cory, C.J.; Crisp, R.J.; Leite, A.C.; Marcinko, A.J.; Nguyen, T.T.; Van de Vyver, J.

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L.-C. Couturier

C.J. Cory



Abstract

A large body of research points to differences in the communal orientation of people from a lower and higher socio-economic status (SES) background. However, direct evidence for differences in communal attitudes remains scant. In this pre-registered report, we test the hypothesis that SES impacts the incentive value of cues associated with bonding and social relations, thereby fostering differences in implicit and explicit communal attitudes. We further speculate that for people at the low end of the SES spectrum, the prevalence of discrimination, exclusion, and conflict means that relationships may have less of an incentive value. Thus, we hypothesise that the association between SES and communal attitudes follows a curvilinear trajectory and peaks at medium levels of SES. Testing these predictions in a dataset derived from the Attitudes, Identities, and Individual Differences (AIID) Study (Hussey, Hughes, & Nosek, 2018), we found no evidence supporting a linear or a curvilinear association between SES and communal attitudes. Instead, implicit and explicit communal attitudes did not vary across the SES spectrum. We discuss the implications of these findings and avenues for future research.

Citation

Weick, M., Couturier, L., Vasiljevic, M., Ross, P., Cory, C., Crisp, R., …Van de Vyver, J. (2022). Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, Article 104353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104353

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 11, 2022
Online Publication Date May 26, 2022
Publication Date 2022-09
Deposit Date May 22, 2022
Publicly Available Date Jul 14, 2022
Journal Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Print ISSN 0022-1031
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 102
Article Number 104353
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104353
Keywords Socio-economic status (SES); hierarchy; communal orientation; implicit attitudes; explicit attitudes; reward

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