Psychology 3721F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The War Amps, Begging, Amway

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3721F/G
• Professor: Nelson Heapy

Document Summary

I can do something for you with the reasonable understanding that you will repay me in kind eventually. No sense of immediacy or for the repayment to be the exactly the same, but for there to be an equal value. We unconsciously have the expectation that what you give will be returned in kind. The reciprocity principle is thought to be at the core of what human society is all about exchanging expertise in rapid ways without always having to be paid up front. Argued by many that without credit, an economy would fail for an economy to thrive the people have to spend a little more than they have at the moment. Another thing that is impressive with this is that this kind of idea is engrained in every known human society no society that has been discovered where this principle is not held.