1. The effect of labour on ownership decisions in two cultures: Developmental evidence from Japan and the United Kingdom.
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Kanngiesser, Patricia, Itakura, Shoji, and Hood, Bruce M.
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CHILDREN , *ADULTS , *CHI-squared test , *CREATIVE ability , *CULTURE , *DECISION making , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *RESEARCH funding , *SOCIAL skills , *VIDEO recording , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Creative labour has an effect on children's and adults' ownership decisions in Western cultures. We investigated whether preschoolers and adults from an Eastern culture ( Japan) would show a similar bias. In a first-party task (Experiment 1), in which participants created their own objects, Japanese preschoolers but not adults assigned ownership to creators. When participants watched videos of third-party conflicts between owners of materials and creators (Experiment 2), Japanese adults, but not preschoolers, transferred ownership to creators. In a British comparison group, both preschoolers and adults showed an effect of creative labour in the third-party task. A bias to attribute ownership on the basis of creative labour is thus not specific to Western culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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