University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2024 Aug;50(8):1197-1210. doi: 10.1177/01461672231159775. Epub 2023 Apr 4.
Previous research has demonstrated an inverse relation between subjective social class (SSC) and performance on emotion recognition tasks. Study 1 ( = 418) involved a preregistered replication of this effect using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task and the Cambridge Mindreading Face-Voice Battery. The inverse relation replicated; however, exploratory analyses revealed a significant interaction between sex and SSC in predicting emotion recognition, indicating that the effect was driven by males. In Study 2 ( = 745), we preregistered and tested the interaction on a separate archival dataset. The interaction replicated; the association between SSC and emotion recognition again occurred only in males. Exploratory analyses (Study 3; = 381) examined the generalizability of the interaction to incidental face memory. Our results underscore the need to reevaluate previous research establishing the main effects of social class and sex on emotion recognition abilities, as these effects apparently moderate each other.
先前的研究表明，主观社会阶层（SSC）与情绪识别任务的表现呈负相关。研究 1（n=418）使用“读心术眼动测验”和“剑桥心理推理面孔-声音电池”预先注册了该效应的复制。这种反向关系得到了复制；然而，探索性分析显示，性别和 SSC 之间的交互作用在预测情绪识别方面具有显著意义，表明该效应是由男性驱动的。在研究 2（n=745）中，我们在另一个档案数据集上预先注册并测试了这种交互作用。该交互作用得到了复制；SSC 与情绪识别之间的关联再次仅在男性中发生。探索性分析（研究 3；n=381）检验了交互作用在偶然面孔记忆中的普遍性。我们的结果强调了需要重新评估先前关于社会阶层和性别对情绪识别能力的主要影响的研究，因为这些影响显然相互制约。
