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 …

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 …

Knowing who owns what is challenging because it is often invisible to direct perception. Yet,
the concept of ownership can be instrumental for organizing representations of the world …

Three preregistered experiments, conducted in 2021, investigated whether English‐
speaking American preschoolers (N= 120; 4–6 years; 54 females, predominantly White) and …

In four experiments, we explored children's use of shared clothing style to infer grouplevel
knowledge. In Experiment 1, 3-and 4-year-olds and 6-and-7-year-olds inferred that those …

The legal principle of accession suggests that people sometimes extend ownership of a
prominent item to related objects, resources, and benefits. For example, people might …

Four experiments examined Canadian 2‐to 3‐year‐old children's (N= 224; 104 girls, 120
boys) thoughts about shared preferences. Children saw sets of items, and identified theirs …

Children favor knowledgeable people in information-seeking contexts, but is this preference
maintained when other resources are available to resolve problems? This study addressed …

The present research examined children's understanding of social rank (ie, status, power)
and investigated the degree to which social rank and gender biases drive children's …