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sources, It seemed possible that the correlation may have
been due to the frequent listing in both recall tasks of
items defining territorial spaces, e.g. dwellings, cars,
land, etc. A number of categories define items that could
contain people and define territorial space: Land &
Property, Dwellings, Cars, Businesses, Aircraft, Boats,
Vacation Property, Heavy Vehicles, Trailers & Campers, Areas
of a Home, and Farms. When items from these 11 categories
were removed, the correlation between the two listings did
not decrease (r = .48, p < .01).
Analysis of Criteria Judgements
Each subject judged each of the 12 criteria of
ownership in terms of both its applicability to each of
their own recall items and its merit as a general argument
for ownership. The goal of the analyses of these criteria
judgements was to determine the relative priority of the
criterion in each of the judgement conditions. First, the
multiple randomizations of the responses on "the
questionnaires were unsorted. (See Appendix L for a listing
of the unrandomizing program.) Then each subject's
judgements of the applicability of the criteria to their
recall exemplars were averaged across the 10 exemplars of
things owned and the 10 exemplars of things not owned. On
nine instances, subjects had omitted a judgement and on
those instances the averaging was on nine rather than 10