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Exploring the self-ownership effect: Separating stimulus and response biases.

Marius Golubickis¹, Johanna K Falben¹, William A Cunningham²

¹School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition

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Self-ownership speeds up object categorization by influencing response bias, not evidence accumulation. This study clarifies how owning items impacts cognitive processing and decision-making.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Social Psychology

Background:

Ownership significantly influences information processing, but its underlying mechanisms are not fully understood.
Self-relevance is known to enhance perceptual judgments, a phenomenon termed the self-prioritization effect.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether ownership enhances object categorization.
To elucidate the cognitive mechanisms driving the self-ownership effect in object processing.

Main Methods:

Conducted two experiments involving an object-categorization task.
Utilized a hierarchical drift diffusion model (HDDM) to analyze task performance and underlying cognitive processes.
Compared classification speed for self-owned items versus items owned by others (stranger, best friend).

Main Results:

Items owned by the self were classified significantly faster than those owned by a stranger or best friend, demonstrating a self-ownership effect.
Hierarchical drift diffusion modeling revealed that the self-ownership effect is primarily driven by a response bias, specifically the starting point of evidence accumulation.

Conclusions:

Self-ownership enhances object categorization speed.
The origin of the ownership effect in object processing lies in response bias, not in altered evidence accumulation.
Findings provide a mechanistic explanation for how ownership influences cognitive processes.