ON THE SOCIAL NATURE OF NONSOCIAL PERCEPTION - THE MERE OWNERSHIP EFFECT
ON THE SOCIAL NATURE OF NONSOCIAL PERCEPTION - THE MERE OWNERSHIP EFFECT
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-3514.62.2.229
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发表时间:
1992-02-01
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
BEGGAN, JK
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作者:
BEGGAN, JK
The assumption of the present research was that ownership of an object causes the owner to treat the object as a social entity because ownership creates a psychological association between the object and the owner. Three experiments investigated whether Ss would evaluate an object more favorably merely because they owned it, a bias analogous to other self-serving biases people display. Study 1 confirmed the existence of this mere ownership effect. Study 2 showed that the effect was not due to Ss having greater exposure to an owned object relative to an unowned object. Study 3 showed that the effect may be a specific instance of a general tendency of people to make self-enhancing judgments.