Ownership is at the heart of people's daily activities and has been throughout history. People
consider ownership when acting on objects, engaging in financial matters, and assessing …

Ownership and value go together, and understanding both is imperative for children to know
how to act in socially appropriate and advantageous ways. This paper reviews how children …

To examine early developments in other‐oriented resource sharing, fifty‐one 18‐and 24‐
month‐old children were administered 6 tasks with toys or food that could be shared with an …

Everyone holds personal information about others. Each person's privacy thus critically
depends on the interplay of multiple actors. In an age of technology integration, this …

Human possession psychology originates from deeply rooted experiential capacities shared
with other animals. However, unlike other animals, we are a uniquely self-conscious species …

Active resource transfer is a pervasive and distinctive feature of human sociality. We
hypothesized that humans possess an action schema of giving specific for representing …

From the moment children say “mine!” by two years of age, objects of possession change
progressively from being experienced as primarily unalienable property (ie, something that …

Appropriate behavior in relation to an object often requires judging whether it is owned and,
if so, by whom. The authors propose accounts of how people make these judgments. Our …

It is impossible to perceive who owns an object; this must be inferred. One way that children
make such inferences is through a first possession bias—when two agents each use an …

Ownership is universal and ubiquitous in human societies, yet the psychology underpinning
ownership intuitions is generally not described in a coherent and computationally tractable …