ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some motivational propositions: people desire that the idea receive origination credit; they want consensual validation from knowledgeable others that the idea is indeed original and useful and People also desire recognition credit. The term, brain-child, captures this proprietary attachment one feels to one’s originated idea. Origination credit was then awarded—the idea won honors. Recognition credit was reported to have been allocated to the originator, or to both parties, or to the friend—a case of plagiarization. Strictly speaking, it seems reasonable to propose that the issue of recognition credit would be of greater moment to an originator if the idea, has received origination credit than if the idea has been denied origination credit. The multivariate analysis of variance carried out across the six measures showed highly significant effects of both the origination and recognition allocation factors. The effect of recognition obtained under no origination credit paralleled the effect obtained under origination credit, but was weaker.
