Keyboard shortcuts while dragging-and-dropping?

In Windows, when I'm dragging and dropping files from one folder to another, I can press keys on the keyboard to force it to change its behaviour -- for example, if I hold the Crtl key down, it will force it to copy files instead of move them. Similarly, I can hold down the shift key to force it to move files when it wants to default to copying them.
What is the equivalent keypress on a Mac running OS X 10.9.2? It keeps moving files when I want to copy them (and vice-versa) and I just can't figure out which key(s) to press while dragging-and-dropping to make it change its behaviour.
Thanks for your help,
Laurence MacNeill
Mableton, Georgia, USA

Press the Option key to force a copy, or the Command key to force a move. Pressing both at once will create an alias.
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permission java.awt.AWTPermission "accessEventQueue";
permission java.awt.AWTPermission "setDropTarget";
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permission java.awt.AWTPermission "acceptDropBetweenAccessControllerContexts";
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