The last one stays.hat is the law of reciprocity? Vladislav Melnik BY VLADISLAV MELNIK 31 COMMENTS Imagine it's Christmas. And you send out a stack of Christmas cards. To complete strangers. What would happen? How many Christmas cards do you think you would get back? Absolutely none? One, two or maybe three? Maybe a handful too? unlikely . You would get a whole lot back. Probably almost as many as you sent. This is exactly what a university professor attempted, which he published in Social Science Research in 1976. He also thought he was only getting some cards back. But he himself was amazed at the result.

He got back lots of Christmas cards and congratulations from people he didn't know at all. It almost seems as if the recipients will receive the congratulations. Click...boom...bang. And Israel phone number list send back a card almost automatically . That is the law of reciprocity. What is reciprocity? Reciprocity is a fundamental human principle and means reciprocity . True to the motto: Tit for tat. If I do you a favor, you do me one too. If I send you a Christmas card, you will send me one too. As you to me, so I to you. Can you perhaps remember the last time you grabbed a sampler in the supermarket.

Maybe you felt that you now owe the nice lady or gentleman something. And maybe you picked up a pack of the cheese too. Even though you might not really like him. You felt guilty. she made something for you Now you must do something for her. And this law is so ingrained in our culture and in our DNA that there is almost nothing we can do about it. So the rule is that if we get something, we have to try to give it back in a similar way. A good example of the use of this law is by the followers of the Hare Krishna movement.