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  2. Norm of reciprocity - Wikipedia

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    "A negative norm of reciprocity represents the means by which individuals act against unfavourable treatments, and functions to keep balance in social systems". [6] In contrast to the positive reciprocity norm, the negative reciprocity norm emphasizes the return of unfavourable treatment as an appropriate response to a misdeed.

  3. Gift economy - Wikipedia

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    Market or negative reciprocity is the exchange of goods and services where each party intends to profit from the exchange, often at the expense of the other. Gift economies, or generalized reciprocity, occurred within closely knit kin groups, and the more distant the exchange partner, the more balanced or negative the exchange became. [26]

  4. Reciprocity (social psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Negative reciprocity occurs when an action that has a negative effect on someone is returned with an action that has an approximately equal negative effect. [ 23 ] [ 28 ] For example, if an individual commits a violent act against a person, it is expected that person would return with a similar act of violence.

  5. An L.A.-based psychologist said she doesn't return her shopping cart in a video that's generated more than 11 million views as of Monday and a litany of backlash.

  6. Inverse-chi-squared distribution - Wikipedia

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    The inverse chi-squared distribution (or inverted-chi-square distribution [1]) is the probability distribution of a random variable whose multiplicative inverse (reciprocal) has a chi-squared distribution.

  7. Reciprocity (social and political philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    But without some form of overall reciprocal balance, the relationship may become transformed into a nonreciprocal form of friendship, or the friendship may fail altogether. To provide an everyday life example, should one's (person A) dog die, a good friend (person B) would offer support and a "shoulder to cry on" for person A struggling to deal ...

  8. Multiplicative inverse - Wikipedia

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    For example, the reciprocal of 5 is one fifth (1/5 or 0.2), and the reciprocal of 0.25 is 1 divided by 0.25, or 4. The reciprocal function, the function f(x) that maps x to 1/x, is one of the simplest examples of a function which is its own inverse (an involution). Multiplying by a number is the same as dividing by its reciprocal and vice versa ...

  9. Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    Thus the negative prescriptions of the prohibition have positive counterparts. [8] The idea of the alliance theory is thus of a reciprocal or a generalized exchange which founds affinity, just as economic exchange due to the division of labour resulted in organic solidarity. This global phenomenon takes the form of a "circulation of women ...