Even without legal ownership, groups can experience objects, places, and ideas as
belonging to them ('ours'). This state of mind–collective psychological ownership–is …

Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly
human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a …

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 …

Personal norms consist of individuals' attitudes about the appropriateness of behaviour.
These norms guide adolescents' behaviour in countless domains that are fundamental for …

The proposal that humans possess an evolved psychology of ownership is a highly
plausible one. But what, if any, features of human ownership psychology might be …

Ownership is universal and ubiquitous in human societies, yet the psychology underpinning
ownership intuitions is generally not described in a coherent and computationally tractable …

Although people take care of their own possessions, they also engage in stewardship and
take care of things they do not own. Here, we examined what young children infer when they …

Collective psychological ownership as a sense that a territory belongs to a group might
explain attitudes of the White majority toward territorial compensation for Indigenous …

We examined how autochthony belief (entitlements from first arrival) and investment belief
(entitlements from working the land) guide attitudes towards territorial compensation of …

Although people report grave concern over their data privacy, they take little care to protect
it. We suggest that this privacy paradox can be understood in part as the consequence of an …