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Ownership and willingness to compete for resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2023

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Ori Friedman*
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Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Canada friedman@uwaterloo.ca; https://uwaterloo.ca/psychology/people-profiles/ori-friedman
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Abstract

Boyer proposes that ownership intuitions depend on tracking cues predictive of agents’ motivations to compete for resources. However, the account may mis-predict people's intuitions about ownership, and it may also be too cognitively costly to be feasible. Even so, alternative accounts could benefit by taking inspiration from how the account handles thorny issues in the psychology of ownership.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e336
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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