Children, but not great apes, respect ownership

P Kanngiesser, F Rossano, R Frickel… - Developmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Access to and control of resources is a major source of costly conflicts. Animals, under some
conditions, respect what others control and use (ie possession). Humans not only respect
possession of resources, they also respect ownership. Ownership can be viewed as a
cooperative arrangement, where individuals inhibit their tendency to take others' property on
the condition that those others will do the same. We investigated to what degree great apes
follow this principle, as compared to human children. We conducted two experiments, in …

Children, but not great apes, respect ownership

P Iqbal, F Rossano, R Frickel, A Tomm, M Tomasello - 2020 - pearl.plymouth.ac.uk
Access to and control of resources is a major source of costly conflicts. Animals, under some
conditions, respect what others control and use (ie possession). Humans not only respect
possession of resources, they also respect ownership. Ownership can be viewed as a
cooperative arrangement, where individuals inhibit their tendency to take others' property on
the condition that those others will do the same. We investigated to what degree great apes
follow this principle, as compared to human children. We conducted two experiments, in …
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