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  • Cognitive Science
  • Behavioral Economics

Background:

  • Psychological ownership, the sense of "MINE-ness," influences perceptions of objects and self.
  • While often aligned, psychological and legal ownership can diverge, leading to complex ownership experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a dual-process model of psychological ownership.
  • To explain discrepancies between psychological and legal ownership.
  • To predict the extent of psychological ownership in various person-object relationships.

Main Methods:

  • Integrative review of existing literature on psychological ownership.
  • Development of a theoretical dual-process model.
  • Analysis of scenarios involving legal ownership, use, and psychological ownership.

Main Results:

  • Psychological ownership arises from self-object associations (implicit inference) that are then evaluated by explicit judgments.
  • The proposed model accounts for situations where legal and psychological ownership conflict.
  • The model predicts varying degrees of psychological ownership based on legal ownership and object use.

Conclusions:

  • A dual-process model provides a framework for understanding the formation and divergence of psychological ownership.
  • Understanding psychological ownership is crucial for fields ranging from marketing to law.
  • The model highlights the interplay between implicit and explicit cognitive processes in establishing ownership.