Semantics of ownership

Rudmin, Floyd W.

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Semantics of ownership: a study based on free recall and on explicit judgements

Author:: Rudmin, Floyd W.

Year of publication:: 1983

Language:: English

Subject:: Besitz Eigentum

Topic:: C - Psychology

Shelfmark:: C/R916

Access:: Free access

x tL Appendix B Pilot Study 1: Scaling the Criteria Purpose: The identification and the expression of the list of plausable criteria in Appendix A were developed by one man, the experimenter. The goal of this pilot study was to obtain subjects' reactions to this list. More particularly, the goal was to give subjects a task involving the list, and then to ask them about additional criteria and about the adequacy of the wordings of the labels and the example expressions. Method: Two different tasks were performed by two different groups of subjects. Both groups judged each of the 40 criteria for its reasonableness and force as an argument that something is owned by someone, and both groups answered follow-up questions on the difficulty of the task and the clarity of the wordings. . One group of 30 undergraduate students (21 females, 9 males), with a mean age of 21, judged the criteria individually on a 9 point scale, from "weak" valued 1 to "strong" valued 9 . The order of the criteria was uniquely randomized for each subject. A second group of 40 undergraduates (31 female, 9 male), with a mean age of 21, judged the criteria in pairs, deciding which one of the pair was more reasonable and forceful, and to what degree. Responses to this dominance scaling

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