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SUBMITTER: Gelman SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5675834 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gelman Susan A SA Martinez Megan M Davidson Natalie S NS Noles Nicholaus S NS
Child development 20170507 1
New technology poses new moral problems for children to consider. We examined whether children deem object tracking with a mobile GPS device to be a property right. In three experiments, 329 children (4-10 years) and adults were asked whether it is acceptable to track the location of either one's own or another person's possessions using a mobile GPS device. Young children, like adults, viewed object tracking as relatively more acceptable for owners than nonowners. However, whereas adults expres ...[more]