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Our evolved intuitions about privacy aren t made for this era | Psyche Ideas

Consider, too, our intuitions about what belongs to whom. Ownership can be complicated from a legal perspective but, psychologically, it is readily inferred from an early age (as anyone with young children will have realised). This is achieved through a set of heuristics that provide an intuitive folk psychology of ownership. First possession (who first possessed an object), labour investment (who made or modified an object), and object history (information about past transfer of ownership) are all cues that people reflexively use in attributing the ownership of physical things and consequently, the right to open, inspect or enter them.

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C’mon, people, communism won’t be so bad.