About the author -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the reader -- Prologue: premises and problems -- Studying person and property in global perspective -- Force fields of persons and properties -- The emergence of the propertied self -- Early responses to the rise of the propertied self --...

Die wirtschaftliche Reformpolitik der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas nach1978 führte zu einem Individualisierungsschub in China. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird diese Entwicklung im Rahmen eines differenzierungstheoretischen Ansatzes analysiert. Positive und negative Konsequenzen der...

In three sets of experiments involving 5,432 subjects, we show that agents make more errors when doing so allows them to justify selfish behavior. We show that errors relating to addition arise when they can help to justify selfishness but are eliminated when selfish motives are removed. In...