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Invested effort and our open-ended sense of ownership

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2023

Bjorn Merker Open the ORCID record for Bjorn Merker [Opens in a new window]
Bjorn Merker*
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Independent scholar, Fjälkestadsv. 406, Kristianstad, Sweden bjornmerker@gmail.com
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Abstract

Pascal Boyer achieves a felicitous integration of what is known about human ownership psychology by deriving ownership intuitions from the interaction of resource acquisition and our cooperative sociality. By exploring the sense of ownership already present in the domain of resource acquisition, I sketch an evolutionary path to the open-ended nature of the specifically human version of that sense.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e342
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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