To Give or to Receive? The Role of Giver Versus Receiver on Object Tracking and Object Preferences in Children and Adults

For adults, ownership is a concept that rests on principles and connections that apply broadly – whether the owner is the self or someone else, and whether the self is giver or receiver. The present studies tested whether preschool children likewise treat ownership in this abstract fashion. In Exper...

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Authors: Noles, Nicholaus S. (Author) ; Gelman, Susan A. (Author) ; Stilwell, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2021, Volume: 21, Issue: 5, Pages: 369-388
Further subjects:B Ownership
B conceptual development
B mere ownership effect
B Self
B Property
B Social cognition
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Summary:For adults, ownership is a concept that rests on principles and connections that apply broadly – whether the owner is the self or someone else, and whether the self is giver or receiver. The present studies tested whether preschool children likewise treat ownership in this abstract fashion. In Experiment 1, 20 children and 24 adults were assigned to be either “givers” or “receivers.” They were then asked to identify which items they and the researcher owned. In Experiment 2, 20 children and 24 adults were asked which items they and the experimenter liked best. In both experiments, participants’ judgments were not influenced by their role (giver vs. receiver), but were more adult-like when reasoning about self-owned than other-owned objects. These data suggest that intuitions about property ownership are initially egocentric – biased toward linking objects to one’s self – and then extend to others over the course of development.
ISSN:1568-5373
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of cognition and culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340117