Ownership and willingness to compete for resources

Ownership and willingness to compete for resources

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 be...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Behavioral and brain sciences 2023-10, Vol.46, p.e336-e336, Article e336
1. Verfasser: Friedman, Ori
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Sprache:eng
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Motivation
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0140-525X
1469-1825
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X23001280