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Primordial feeling of possession in development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2023

Philippe Rochat Open the ORCID record for Philippe Rochat [Opens in a new window]
Philippe Rochat*
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Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA psypr@emory.edu; https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/rochatlab/people/
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Abstract

Boyer's minimalist model of human ownership psychology overlooks important cues that children provide in their development leading them from pre-conceptual to conceptual (symbolic) expressions of the basic feeling experience of control over things, qua ownership in the most basic psychological sense. Appeal for innate core knowledge and evolutionary logic blows out the light of this rich and unique ontogenetic progression.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e348
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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