The domain of “folk-economics” consists in explicit beliefs about the economy held by
laypeople, untrained in economics, about such topics as, for example, the causes of the …

Ownership influences the permissibility of people's use of objects. Understanding ownership
is therefore necessary for socially appropriate behavior and is an important part of children's …

To examine early developments in other‐oriented resource sharing, fifty‐one 18‐and 24‐
month‐old children were administered 6 tasks with toys or food that could be shared with an …

Human possession psychology originates from deeply rooted experiential capacities shared
with other animals. However, unlike other animals, we are a uniquely self-conscious species …

Active resource transfer is a pervasive and distinctive feature of human sociality. We
hypothesized that humans possess an action schema of giving specific for representing …

To what extent do early intuitions about ownership depend on cultural and socio-economic
circumstances? We investigated the question by testing reasoning about third party …

We elevate our constructions to a special status in our minds. This 'IKEA'effect leads us to
believe that our creations are more valuable than items that are identical, but constructed by …

From the moment children say “mine!” by two years of age, objects of possession change
progressively from being experienced as primarily unalienable property (ie, something that …

Money is generally seen as good, but what about when it is morally tainted? Does this affect
whether people want money or how they would spend it? In this article, we review a nascent …

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