Ownership Effect Can Be a Result of Other-Derogation: Evidence from Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies.

ABSTRACT: Growing evidence suggests that people overvalue their own objects compared to those owned by others, even when the two objects are virtually identical (i.e., ownership effect). Most researchers seem to consider self-enhancement as the underlying mechanism while neglecting the possible process of other-derogation. Here, we attempted to compare these two perspectives, adopting both implicit and neurocognitive methodologies to overcome social desirability confounds. In Study 1, we found that the ownership effect (measured by Implicit Association Test), was correlated with other-derogation but not with self-enhancement (both measured by the Go/No-Go Association Task). In Study 2, by using the event-related potentials (ERPs) technique, we showed that positive-framed other-owned objects elicited

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096666 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature