Social Validation Influences Individuals' Judgments about Ownership.

ABSTRACT: In all domains, from informal to formal, there are conflicts about property and ownership which resolution demands consideration of alleged claims from more than one party. In this work we asked adults (N = 359) to judge cases in which a character held a property claim over an item, but is challenged by a second character who holds a different, subsequent claim over it. The specific goal of this work is to investigate how the resolution of such conflicts depends on the social endorsement of ownership claims. To achieve this aim, we designed variations of conflictive situations over property in which we manipulated details regarding the knowledge of the second agent of other third-parties about the first agent's actions. In essence, our questions were: if an agent claims ownership of someth

SUBMITTER: Casiraghi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797628 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature