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Here, we instead showed people naturalistic scenarios describing a variety of everyday generous acts (like buying someone coffee). With this small amount of extra context, people did *not* expect reciprocal (alternating) actions, over one person being repeatedly generous… (4/11)

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And when we told them that the two people in the scenario are in a hierarchical relationship (i.e. a relationship where one person has more power/status/influence than the other), people’s expectations changed drastically, and they *strongly* expected repeating actions, over alternating (5/11)

Three-panel figure, showing the results of two of the experiments in the paper. 
(a) shows the experimental design - participants saw information about a social relationship and one generous action, and predicted the next action. 
(b) shows the results for Study 1a - participants expected repeating actions in asymmetric relationships, and alternating actions in symmetric relationships. 
(c) shows the results for Study 1b - participants expected repeating actions in asymmetric relationships, and didn't have distinct expectations based on the relative hierarchy of the relationship.
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Alicia Chen
@aliciamchen.bsky.social
PhD student @ MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences aliciamchen.github.io
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