Origins of Possession - Owning and Sharing in Development

Informationen zum Autor Philippe Rochat is Professor of Psychology at Emory University, Atlanta and the head of the Emory Infant and Child Laboratory. His research focuses on the developmental origins of human self-awareness and social cognition in infants and children growing up in different social and cultural circumstances. His work includes Others in Mind (Cambridge, 2009), The Infant's World (2001), Early Social Cognition (1999) and The Self in Infancy (1995). Klappentext This book studies the psychology surrounding the development of owning and sharing in humans across different cultures. Zusammenfassung The way in which we acquire and become attached to our possessions reveals both the similarities and differences between humans and other animals as psychological entities. This book discusses the psychology surrounding how humans experience possession! claim ownership! and share from both a developmental and cross-cultural perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: making sense of human possession; Part I. Psychology: Principles of Human Possession: 1. Experiencing possession; 2. Claiming ownership; 3. Possession and ownership transfer; 4. Symbolic spinoffs of possession; Part II. Development: Human Ontogeny of Possession: 5. First possession; 6. Ownership in development; 7. Sharing in development; Part III. Culture: Human Possession in Context: 8. Culture and possession; 9. Possession in children across cultures; Conclusion: great transformation.

Product details

• Authors: Philippe Rochat
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781316502815
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50281-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, Anthropology, Psychology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology