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

25 same set of criteria. As a first step in preparing such a set, a master list of 40 plausible criteria of ownership was compiled. Each criterion was identified by a label and by an example expression, both created by the experimenter, e.g. Purchase: "I paid for it." (See Appendix A for a complete listing of the 40 criteria.) One pilot study was undertaken to determine whether or not the wordings were adequately clear, and whether or not there were additional, important criteria that might have been overlooked. (See Appendix B.) Based on the results, no new criteria were identified. The example expressions of two criteria were modified slightly. ' A second pilot study was undertaken to select those criteria for which most subjects would be able to list exemplars. (See Appendix C.) The selected criteria for use in the major study appear in Table 1. Finally, a pilot study was undertaken to determine whether or not subjects could sensibly list exemplars of things owned and things not owned. (See Appendix D.) The results showed that subjects were able to do these tasks without apparent difficulty. Subjects The goal of the major study was to examine the semantic intension of the concept of ownership in the general population. Employed adults were assumed to be

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