Anticlue

Norm of Reciprocity

The norm of reciprocity is the human tendency to respond to the actions of others with similar actions. If we are treated with contention and distrust, we tend to treat others with contention or distruct. If we are treated by someone with a warm friendly manner, we tend to treat others in a warm friendly manner.

Hostile interactions evolve out of one's tendency to take an exaggerated view of others' perceived hostility or unreasonable behavior. Then the exaggeration causes one to reciprocate with negative behavior. These hostile interactions end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy with each side behaving equally negatively.

Some triggers of this behavior are Naive realism, where people tend to assume that their view of the world reflects the reality of the world. Confirmatory bias is another trigger where we seek to confirm our beliefs or to find flaws. Also accuse bias is another scenario where someone intentionally does one harm, then it is human nature to hold the party responsible for a long time. On the flip side of things, excuser bias is the tendency to focus on factors outside of our control, while turning a blind eye to factors within our control.

Cooperative interactions is triggered by people's perceptions of fairness, the ability to realize that reasonable people will come to different conclusions, (many ways to skin a cat), the ability to accept responsibility for problems, and finally the ability that you don't blame others for the problem exclusively.