Ownership Dilemmas: The Case of Finders Versus Landowners

被引:19
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作者
DeScioli, Peter [1 ]
Karpoff, Rachel [2 ]
De Freitas, Julian [3 ]
机构
[1] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Polit Sci, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[2] Brandeis Univ, Dept Psychol, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[3] Harvard Univ, Dept Psychol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
Ownership dilemma; Finders; Property; Ownership; Psychology and law; PROPERTY-RIGHTS; INFER OWNERSHIP; EMINENT DOMAIN; PSYCHOLOGY; POSSESSION; CHILDREN; RULES; LABOR; LAW;
D O I
10.1111/cogs.12486
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
People sometimes disagree about who owns which objects, and these ownership dilemmas can lead to costly disputes. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying people's judgments about finder versus landowner cases, in which a person finds an object on someone else's land. We test psychological hypotheses motivated directly by three major principles that govern these cases in the law. The results show that people are more likely to favor the finder when the object is in a public space compared to a private space. We find mixed support for the hypothesis that people are less likely to favor a finder who is employed by the landowner. Last, we find no support for the hypothesis that people are more likely to favor finders for objects located above ground compared to below ground. We discuss implications for psychological theories of ownership and potential applications to property law.
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页码:502 / 522
页数:21
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