We Have Found the Path to Dystopia. Can We Find Our Way Outta Here?

Imagine what it would be like if we followed our Constitution.

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Full disclosure- this is an informed layman’s opinion!

Continuing an exploration of psychological ownership, conceived in corporate culture thought as instrumental in motivating the workforce to perform and innovate, I read the paper by Pierce and Peck - or as properly sourced, the paper by Pierce, Jon L. and Joann Peck (2018), “The History of Psychological Ownership and its Emergence in Consumer Psychology,” in Psychological Ownership and Consumer Behavior, Edited by Joann Peck and Suzanne B. Shu, Springer.

There I found the answer to my question: “When did the concept of psychological ownership first appear in corporate culture thinking?”

Scientific inquiry across numerous disciplines has focused on the psychology of possession, property and mine. It was out of this work that the construct and current theorizing on psychological ownership (cf. Pierce, Kostova, & Dirks, 2001, 2003) finds its origin …………..Other disciplines that have found interest and utility in the c…