Boyer's minimal model should also represent multiple ownership without collective agency

Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Oct 10:46:e353. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23001322.

Abstract

Boyer's minimal model of ownership psychology suggests that joint possession triggers representations of collective agency. However, many forms of co-ownership based on cooperation or competition can be represented as a set of P() or L() tags without inferring a unifying collective entity. Moreover, representations of partible ownership are required to engage in cooperative production and distribution of resources.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Humans
  • Models, Psychological
  • Ownership*