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

A the person. Rather, "possession" appears to have meant something more along the lines of "having", or, if it may be said, "owning". Assertion and Familiarity were similarly high in applicability to owned items. Finally, Gift and Crafting apparently had relatively little importance in subjects' recall of things owned. If they were important as implicit criteria of ownership, it would be expected that more gift and crafted items would have been listed. For example, in Csikszentmihalyi & Rochberg-Halton's (1981) study, 30% of the items reported as "special" were acquired as gifts. The results of judgements of -applicability of criteria to exemplars of things not owned appear in Table 7. If the dominant recall strategy is considered, i.e. exemplars as candidates for ownership, then it is evident that the most common trait of candidacy measured by the judgement task was Desire, with Aesthetics following in second place. The fact that the median scores for these were in mid-scale (2.57 and 2.07) rather than at the top of the scale (4.00) might be accounted for by the fact that some subjects used recall strategies other than candidacy for ownership. That Crafting, Gift, as well as Purchase, were not very praminent in the recall of things not owned is sensible, since these three criteria are means of acquisition.

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