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[Marie O'Brien-Stockie]

November 11, 2008 at Waterloo Public Library

How Children and Adults work out who owns what

OriFriedman, Assistant Professor, Psychology

The owner of a book can read it, write in it, or sell it. For a borrower,
most of these actions are not under consideration. As this example
illustrates, ownership influences how we behave in relation to objects. A
basic problem of daily life, then, is determining who owns what. This
problem would be trivial if ownership were visible. Instead it is invisible.
This talk will review research investigating how young children (aged two to
four) and adult reason about ownership and show that children's and adults'
everyday reasoning about ownership is surprisingly consistent with property
law.

 

 

Marie O'Brien-Stockie

Advancement Assistant

Faculty of Arts

University of Waterloo

Office: 519.888.4567 ext. 38514

Fax: 519.888.4321

 

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