In three studies, we explore the subjective construal of associations between music preferences and social class. Two small-scale studies (N = 100, N = 70) and one study involving a large representative sample of the Italian population (N = 1,045) reveal that (a) people hold well-defined stereotypes on how music preferences are linked to social class, (b) that these stereotypes do not map onto actual class differences in music taste, (c) that they operate at both an implicit and explicit level, (d) that they are subject to ingroup bias among those who prefer “low-class” genres, and (e) that they are only weakly affected by streaming habits. Together, these findings shed new light on the psychological processes through which people draw inferences about social class on the basis of cultural expression.

在三项研究中，我们探索了音乐偏好与社会阶层之间关联的主观解释。两项小规模研究（N = 100，N = 70）和一项涉及大量意大利人口代表性样本的研究（N= 1,045) 揭示 (a) 人们对音乐偏好与社会阶层的联系有着明确的刻板印象，(b) 这些刻板印象没有映射到音乐品味的实际阶级差异，(c) 它们在两个方面都起作用隐性和显性水平，（d）他们在喜欢“低级”类型的人中容易受到内群体偏见的影响，以及（e）他们受流媒体习惯的影响很小。总之，这些发现揭示了人们根据文化表达推断社会阶级的心理过程。