Children consider costs to owners when reasoning about ownership transgressions
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Abstract
Ownership affords different rights and privileges to owners than non-owners. We investigated whether children view transgressions that impose a large or permanent cost to the owner as less acceptable than (1) actions that impose small or temporary costs, and (2) actions that do not impose any costs to owners. Children aged three to eight years (N=72) and adults (N=72) were shown vignettes in which an agent interacts with someone else’s property without permission. Both adults and children judged actions that imposed severe costs to owners as less acceptable than minor transgressions that imposed temporary costs and actions that did not involve physical contact. These findings reveal that children and adults consider the costs imposed on owners when judging the acceptability of people’s interactions with others’ property. Critically, these findings also provide preliminary evidence that children’s concept of ownership may be embedded into their broader social cognitive framework of intuitive psychology.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.022 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".