The Psychological Role of Property Rights in Human Behavior

J J Edney
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J J Edney: Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1976, vol. 8, issue 7, 811-822

Abstract: A number of psychologists are turning their interests to the problems of property rights in human behavior. This is a recent development, and the relevant work is found in studies of territoriality. A number of basic theories of territoriality are summarized here, with comments on the problems of defining the term. It has further been proposed that territories affect humans at three levels of analysis, including interaction with social rank distinction, reduction of disorder and complexity, and chaining individual behavior acts. From a subjective point of view territories are probably connected with a personal sense of security, control, self-determination, identity, and continuity.

Date: 1976
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