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The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Oct 2023Human group size seemingly has no limit, with many individuals living alongside thousands - even millions - of others. Non-human primate groups, on the other hand,...
Human group size seemingly has no limit, with many individuals living alongside thousands - even millions - of others. Non-human primate groups, on the other hand, cannot be sustained past a certain, relatively small size. I propose that Pascal Boyer's model of ownership psychology may offer an explanation for such a significant divergence.
Topics: Humans; Ownership
PubMed: 37813405
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23001383 -
The Veterinary Record Mar 2023
Topics: Animals; Pets; Animal Welfare; Ownership
PubMed: 36928966
DOI: 10.1002/vetr.2867 -
The British Journal of Dermatology Aug 2022
Topics: Humans; Ownership
PubMed: 35912910
DOI: 10.1111/bjd.21650 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Oct 2023Commentators discussed the coherence and validity of a minimalist approach to ownership intuitions, in ways that make it possible to clarify the model, re-evaluate its...
Commentators discussed the coherence and validity of a minimalist approach to ownership intuitions, in ways that make it possible to clarify the model, re-evaluate its cognitive underpinnings, and sketch some of its implications. This response summarizes the model; addresses issues concerning the need for a special technical lexicon when describing cognitive semantics; the psychology involved in contexts of competitive acquisition and their consequences for possession and use of rival resources; the role of cooperative expectations in creating mutually beneficial allocation of resources; the consequences of ownership psychology for social interaction and the production of social norms of property; and the relations between psychological processes and legal institutions in the domain, before proposing some final thoughts.
Topics: Humans; Ownership; Language; Intuition; Semantics; Social Norms
PubMed: 37813457
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23002406 -
Global Health, Science and Practice Sep 2020Although enduringly intangible, community ownership is foundational to primary health care. This intangibility is a reminder of what programs can and should do (create...
Although enduringly intangible, community ownership is foundational to primary health care. This intangibility is a reminder of what programs can and should do (create space for dialogue, question their own choices, expand diversity in stakeholder voices making sense of program-induced changes, including through evaluation) and what they cannot do (manage someone else’s ownership).
Topics: Female; Humans; Ownership; Pregnancy; Primary Health Care; Zambia
PubMed: 33008849
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00427 -
Current Psychiatry Reports Aug 2020The topic of sex doll ownership is becoming an increasingly discussed issue from both a social and legal perspective. This review aims to examine the veracity of the... (Review)
Review
PURPOSE OF REVIEW
The topic of sex doll ownership is becoming an increasingly discussed issue from both a social and legal perspective. This review aims to examine the veracity of the existing psychological, sexological, and legal literature in relation to doll ownership.
RECENT FINDINGS
Strong views exist across the spectrum of potential socio-legal positions on sex doll ownership. However, there is an almost total lack of empirical analyses of the psychological characteristics or behavioral implications of doll ownership. As such, existing arguments appear to represent the philosophical positions of those scholars expressing them, rather than being rooted in any objective evidence base. Despite an absence of empirical data on the characteristics and subsequent effects of doll ownership, discussions about the ethical and legal status of doll ownership continue. This highlights a real and urgent need for a coherent research agenda to be advanced in this area of work.
Topics: Humans; Ownership
PubMed: 32803480
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-020-01177-w -
Nursing Management Jun 2022
Topics: Ownership; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 35638880
DOI: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000831424.00509.e0 -
Cognition Aug 2022Ownership is often viewed as demarcating who can use resources and who is restricted from using them. This paper explores another side of ownership-ownership may be...
Ownership is often viewed as demarcating who can use resources and who is restricted from using them. This paper explores another side of ownership-ownership may be attributed to mark individuals as accountable and responsible for causing harm. Across eight experiments, participants (total N = 2517) read vignettes where an agent's actions led resources to be deposited on others' land (Experiments 1-5) or on unowned land (Experiments 6-8). The resources benefitted, harmed, or had no effect on the landowners, or on plants and animals on the land. This manipulation caused an asymmetry between harms and benefits in ownership judgments. Participants more strongly endorsed the agent as owner for harmful resources than beneficial ones, and they also judged it more acceptable for the agent to retrieve harmful resources from others' land. In contrast, participants more strongly endorsed resources as belonging to landowners or to no one when they were beneficial rather than harmful. We also found that participants endorsed the agent as owning harmful resources even when other means were available for conveying the agent was accountable. Together, our findings show that ownership serves functions besides rewarding individuals with rights over property and besides ensuring individuals are responsible for harm caused by their property-people also attribute ownership to ensure that wrongdoers remain connected and accountable for harm they cause. We discuss implications for theories of ownership, and how our findings relate to other asymmetries between harms and benefits.
Topics: Animals; Humans; Judgment; Ownership; Reward
PubMed: 35349873
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105106 -
The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care... Nov 2017
Topics: Capitalism; Economic Competition; General Surgery; Health Care Reform; Health Care Sector; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Ownership; Politics; Professional Corporations; United States
PubMed: 28796654
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001673 -
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Oct 2023Boyer proposes that ownership intuitions depend on tracking cues predictive of agents' motivations to compete for resources. However, the account may mis-predict...
Boyer proposes that ownership intuitions depend on tracking cues predictive of agents' motivations to compete for resources. However, the account may mis-predict people's intuitions about ownership, and it may also be too cognitively costly to be feasible. Even so, alternative accounts could benefit by taking inspiration from how the account handles thorny issues in the psychology of ownership.
Topics: Humans; Intuition; Motivation; Ownership; Competitive Behavior; Social Behavior; Cognition
PubMed: 37813472
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X23001280