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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.