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Compared to individuals in lower positions of power, higher-power individuals are theorized to be less motivated to attend to social cues. In support of this theory, previous research has consistently documented negative correlations between social class and emotion perception. Prior studies, however, were limited by the size and diversity of the participant samples as well as the systematicity with which social class and emotion perception were operationalized. Here, we examine the generalizability of prior research across 10,000+ total participants. In an initial modest sample, (n = 179), Study 1 partially replicated past results: emotion identification correlated negativity with subjective social class (β = -0.15, 95% CI = [-0.28,-0.02]) and one of two objective social class measures (participant education β = -0.15, 95% CI = [-0.03,-0.01]). Studies 2–4 followed up on Study 1’s mixed results for objective social class in three much larger samples. These results diverged from past literature. In Study 2, complex emotion identification correlated non-significantly with participant education (β = 0.02,  p  = 0.25; 95% CI = [-0.01, 0.05],  n =  2,726), positively with childhood family income (β = 0.03, 95% CI = [0.01,0.06],  n  = 4,312), and positively with parental education (β = 0.06, 95% CI = [0.04,0.09],  n =  4,225). In Study 3, basic emotion identification correlated positively with participant education (β = 0.05, 95% CI = [0.02, 0.09]),  n  = 2,564). In Study 4, basic emotion discrimination correlated positively with participant education (β = 0.09, 95% CI = [0.05,0.13],  n  = 2,079), positively with parental education (β = 0.06, 95% CI = [0.02,0.09],  n  = 3,225), and non-significantly with childhood family income (β = 0.2, 95% CI = [0.01,0.07],  n  = 3,272). Results remained similar when restricting analyses to U.S.-based participants. Taken together, these findings suggest that previously reported negative correlations between emotion perception and social class may generalize poorly past select samples and/or subjective measures of social class. Data from the three large web-based samples used in Studies 2–4 are available at  osf.io/jf7r3  as normative datasets and to support future investigations of these and other research questions.

How generalizable is the inverse relationship between social class and emotion perception?