TY  - GEN
AU  - Wang, Wenhua
AU  - Pierce, Jon L.
AU  - Li, Dahui
AU  - Wang, Guangrong
AU  - Li, Jianbiao
AU  - Niu, Xiaofei
SN  - 1664-1078
AU  - Wang, Wenhua
AU  - Pierce, Jon L.
AU  - Li, Dahui
AU  - Wang, Guangrong
AU  - Li, Jianbiao
AU  - Niu, Xiaofei
LA  - eng
CN  - ENP-cb9c05ad-cd30-4673-98f4-6c6df13bb553
TI  - Eliciting psychological ownership of object by marking organizational name: the role of belongingness
PY  - 2021
AB  - Psychological ownership critically entails the need for home (a place in which to dwell or a place of belongingness). However, the question of how an individual’s need for belongingness within an organization affects their psychological ownership of organization-linked objects remains unexplored. We first conducted a behavioral study to determine whether psychological ownership of object can be elicited by marking the object with the name of the subjects’ organization. The participants in this behavioral study reported a higher level of psychological ownership when objects were marked with their own organization’s name (i.e., in-organization objects) compared with objects marked with another organization’s name (i.e., out-organization objects). Importantly, this effect was more pronounced among subjects who experienced a stronger sense of organizational belongingness. We subsequently conducted a second study to explore its underlying neural mechanism. Our findings indicated that participants with a higher level of perceived organizational belongingness exhibited a significantly larger amplitude of the P300 component of event-related potential in response to in-organization objects compared with their response to out-organization objects. However, no significant difference in the P300 component was found for participants who lacked a sense of organizational belongingness.
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