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Kanngiesser, Patricia; Rossano, Federico; Zeidler, Henriette; Haun, Daniel; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Ownership is a cornerstone of many human societies and can be understood as a cooperative arrangement, where individuals refrain from taking each other's property. Owners can thus trust others to respect their property even in their absence. We investigated this principle in 5- to 7-year-olds (N = 152) from 4 diverse societies. Children…
Descriptors: Young Children, Ownership, Social Differences, Cooperation
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Rossano, Federico; Fiedler, Lydia; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Property as a social "agreement" comprises both a communicative component, in which someone makes a claim that she is entitled to some piece of property, and a cooperative component, in which others in the community respect that claim as legitimate. In the current study, preschool children were (a) given the opportunity to mark some…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Ownership, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cooperation