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

F / instructions asked subjects to list "examples" of things they owned and of things they did not own. One subject asked if the point was to list a variety of different sorts of things, rather than things that just come to mind. On the third section of the questionnaire, subjects were asked to judge the criteria as general arguments for ownership. The instructions used the wording "arguments or justifications for ownership", which was apparently interpreted by some subjects as, "reasons I choose to own something” instead of "reasons upon which I base claims of ownership". This may explain why the criteria Aesthetics and Desire were ranked ahead of Territoriality, Familiarity, and Knowledge in this study, but behind them by two groups of subjects in a pilot study (See Appendix B.). The wording problems discussed here are a few that were identified once the study was in progress. Certainly, some degree of bias and "noise" has been introduced by such variable interpretations of critical terminology. Other sources of bias and "noise" were the self-selection processes by the subjects. For example, subjects self-selected participation. Based on comments by those who decided not to participate, the results of this study represent those who were agreeable to impositions on both their time and privacy. Subjects also self-selected the recall conditions of experimenter-present or

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