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

E owned and not owned exemplars. The difference scores between each subject's mean criteria applicability for owned things minus the mean applicability for things not owned was used to reduce the influence of any extraneous selection criteria. Finally, by way of comparison, explicit judgements were made of the criteria of ownership themselves. Summaries of the four. judgement schemes in Tables 6, 7, 8, and 9 show that criteria were quantitatively differentiated at the top and at the bottom of each criteria rank ordering, with a groups of relatively undifferentiated criteria in the middle. These upper and lower groupings will be discussed for each measurement scheme. For the judgements of the applicability of criteria to exemplars of owned things displayed in Table 6, Possession was almost always completely applicable. On only eight of 1200 items listed as owned was Possession judged to be not applicable. Those items were: watch, passport, ‘van, cookbooks, bicycle (twice) and microwave (twice). There is nothing noteworthy about these items, and presumably the non-applicability of Possession had to do with the items being absent, loaned, or perhaps stolen. It is also important to note that subjects claimed possession of such items as houses, cottages, cars, and investments. Thus, possession: "I've got it" was not being interpreted in the restricted sense of having something in hand or even near

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