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Judgments About the Right to Property from Preschool to Adulthood

Judgments About the Right to Property from Preschool to Adulthood Legal theorists argue that the constitutional right to property is defined, in part, by the property beliefs of the community, and how they change; yet little is known about these beliefs. In each of the three present studies, subjects aged 4 to 15 years, and adults, rated story characters who refused to return objects to their previous owners. Subjects under 10 did not clearly differentiate loss or destruction of one’s own from another’s property (study I), or the rights of persons who acquired possession by theft, loan, finding, or gift (study II). Creative labor was considered a more legitimate basis for possession by 15-year-olds than by 10-year-olds or adults (study III). These results support the idea that children understand “own” in the same way as adults understand “on loan”. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Law and Human Behavior American Psychological Association

Judgments About the Right to Property from Preschool to Adulthood

Law and Human Behavior , Volume 17 (1): 12 – Feb 1, 1993

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0147-7307
eISSN
1573-661X
DOI
10.1007/BF01044542
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Abstract

Legal theorists argue that the constitutional right to property is defined, in part, by the property beliefs of the community, and how they change; yet little is known about these beliefs. In each of the three present studies, subjects aged 4 to 15 years, and adults, rated story characters who refused to return objects to their previous owners. Subjects under 10 did not clearly differentiate loss or destruction of one’s own from another’s property (study I), or the rights of persons who acquired possession by theft, loan, finding, or gift (study II). Creative labor was considered a more legitimate basis for possession by 15-year-olds than by 10-year-olds or adults (study III). These results support the idea that children understand “own” in the same way as adults understand “on loan”.

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Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Feb 1, 1993

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