Are you what you have? The role of motivation and cultural value congruency on the mere ownership effect

Previous research on mere ownership effect has shown that merely possessing an object results in enhanced evaluation of that object (Beggan, 1992), when compared with unowned (Belk, 1988; Dittmar, 1992; Prelinger, 1959) or others-owned object (Nesselroade et al., 1999). Since people see their posses...

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Main Author: CHAN, Pik Ying
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Digital Commons @ Lingnan University 2017
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Online Access:https://commons.ln.edu.hk/psy_etd/7
https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=psy_etd