Reciprocation: The old Give and Take... and Take

10 important questions on Reciprocation: The old Give and Take... and Take

What did the Hare Krishna people do to get their donation?

They started using the reciprocity technique by giving people gifts before asking them for money.

What is the social purpose for the rule of reciprocity?

to promote the development of reciprocal relationships between individuals so that one person could initiate such a relationship without the fear of loss.

Why is reciprocity not working when people sent you greet cards 'to encourage your kindness'?

Because the reciprocity works for gifts not for unwanted commercial products.
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Can the reciprocity rule produce meaningfully large differences in the sizes of the exchanged favors?

Under the right circumstances, it certainly can.

Why is it that small first favors often stimulate larger return favors?

1. The unpleasant character of the feeling of indebtedness. We are willing to agree to perform a larger favor than we received, merely to relieve ourselves of the psychological burden of debt.
2. You will be disliked by the social group.

Why do people also feel a strain to reciprocate a concession?

because you do it in the benefit of such a tendency to the society.

Why does the reciprocity rule also count in concessions?

1. It pressures the recipient of an already made concession to respond in kind.
2. a concession encourages the creation of socially desirable arrangements by ensuring that anyone seeking to start such an arrangement will not be exploited.

What tactic are you using when asking first for 10 dollars and than for 5 dollar?

The reciprocity rule and the contrast principle.

Why do people show up more when the rejection-then-retreat tactic is used?

Because people feel greater responsibility for, and satisfaction with, that arrangement.

What where three important findings in the bargaining game to understand why the rejection-then-retreat techniques is so effective according to a psychologist at ULCA?

1. The strategy of starting with an extreme demand and then retraiting to the more moderate one produced the most money for the person using it.
2. responsibility: subjects facing the opponent who used the retreating strategy felt most responsible for the final deal.
3. satisfaction: People who where targets of the concession strategy, where the most satisfied with the final arrangement, although they gave the most money to the opponent who just used the concession strategy.

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