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.

大量研究指出，社会经济地位（SES）背景较低和较高的人的公共取向存在差异。然而，关于社区态度差异的直接证据仍然很少。在这份预先注册的报告中，我们检验了 SES 影响与联系和社会关系相关的线索的激励价值的假设，从而促进了内隐和外显的公共态度的差异。我们进一步推测，对于 SES 范围低端的人来说，歧视、排斥和冲突的普遍存在意味着关系可能没有激励价值。因此，我们假设 SES 和公共态度之间的关联遵循曲线轨迹，并在 SES 的中等水平达到峰值。在从态度派生的数据集中测试这些预测，身份和个体差异 (AIID) 研究 (Hussey, Hughes, & Nosek, 2018)，我们发现没有证据支持 SES 和公共态度之间存在线性或曲线关联。相反，内隐和外显的公共态度在 SES 范围内没有变化。我们讨论了这些发现的意义和未来研究的途径。