Local property norms shape how people construe ownership over shared resources.

Evidence

Explaining the variability of dictators’ allocations in terms of the diverse manner in which they may understand their and the recipient’s rights is directly relevant to explaining the variability of dictators’ allocations observed in cross-cultural studies. These behaviors correlate with local cooperative practices. In societies where much is held in common and sharing is a dominant form of economic interaction, participants behave as if they assumed that they have limited rights over the money they got from the experimenter. In societies where property rights are mostly individual and sharing is less common, dictators behave as if they assumed that the money is theirs. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 131

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s overarching framework: the Japanese authorities, from a collectivist property culture, could read even a coerced trample as binding, while Rodrigues’ individualist theology made his own apostasy absolute. — connects to: A fast automatic sense of ownership arises from proximity, discovery, and contact. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 584; Social capital exists as obligations, information flows, and sanctioned norms — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 236; Excessive property rights can block beneficial use rather than enable it — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2284 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Social capital exists as obligations, information flows, and sanctioned norms #expands (0.75) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 236
• Excessive property rights can block beneficial use rather than enable it #complicates (0.72) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2284