Recent research has produced new insights into the early development of social cognition
and social learning. Even very young children learn and understand social activities as …

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 …

The domain of “folk-economics” consists in explicit beliefs about the economy held by
laypeople, untrained in economics, about such topics as, for example, the causes of the …

Whereas much social psychological research has studied the in-group and out-group
implications of social categorization and collective identity (“we”), little research has …

Legal theorists and other commentators have long established a distinction between
property and possession. According to this usage adopted here, possession refers to control …

The present work investigated young children's normative understanding of property rights
using a novel methodology. Two-and 3-year-old children participated in situations in which …

From early childhood, humans demonstrate an understanding of ownership and the rights it
confers to owners. This understanding impacts how children reason about people's actions …

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 …

For adults, ownership is nonobvious:(a) determining ownership depends more on an
object's history than on perceptual cues, and (b) ownership confers special value on an …

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