Development of the sense of ownership : social and moral evaluations

摘要: Since a very young age, the majority of human social interactions involve objects. In these interactions, children seem to take into account who owns what. The notion ownership thus does not only person and an object, but is relationship between several persons with respect object. This organized by set rules or property rights. Our work deals children’s understanding ownership. At what age do acquire rights? Before explicit mastery ownership, have more implicit it? More precisely, we explored evaluation illegitimate legitimate transfers in from 5 months years age. We studied two types transgressions: acquisition object (without owner’s intention transfer it), absence restitution its owner. all our studies, presented characters using non-verbal animated cartoons movies puppets as actors, then measured those transfers. studies Chapter 2 (Studies 1 2) assessed different modes experiments Study 3- 5-year-olds’s Adults were also tested control population. study first one investigate simultaneously asking questions about rights, well moral evaluations implicated transfers, respectively. 1a, participants saw character acquiring either way (theft condition) (gift-reception condition). 1b, action (theft) was compared (giving). 5-year-old (as adults) showed both through their social/moral (preferring agent (gift recipient giver) (thief)), ability attribute rights considering legitimacy transfer. 3-year-old did make any distinction conditions evaluation, neither attribution These results suggest that at same time. 1, no emotional reaction present. examined role possessor’s emotions 3-year-olds’ acquisition. cue present conditions: possessor being sad after presence this cue, 3-year-olds managed distinguish evaluation. could been based solely on negative emotion, emotion displayed conditions. detected transgression theft condition, used confirm it. 3 5) Young (2-3-year-old) bias consider “owner” cannot be definitively transferred someone else. investigated whether 4) implicitly evaluate transgression, it negatively possessor…