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Generous acts have contrasting meanings in equal versus hierarchical social relationships

2024-06-11

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<p>What expectations do acts of generosity create for future social interactions? In online behavioral experiments presenting human observers (N = 1159 English-speaking adults in the United States) with naturalistic vignettes, we find that knowing about the structure (equal or hierarchical) of an existing social relationship markedly reshapes people's expectations for sequences of generous acts. Notably, people do...

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Literature Corpus work: c637e200-4c30-5120-b917-73406d672377
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6kfwr

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