Reciprocity

Reciprocity

Refers to responding to a positive action with another positive action, and responding to a negative action with another negative one

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reciprocity

Professional careers; Sales

A practice, which may be illegal under the trade practices legislation, in which a firm gives purchasing preference to a firm to which it sells, see reverse reciprocity.

reciprocal

Education; SAT vocabulary

Mutually interchangeable or convertible.

reciprocate

Education; SAT vocabulary

reciprocate, is give and take mutually, on mutual, equal basis.

reciprocity

Education; SAT vocabulary

Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.

reciprocity

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

A mode of exchange in which transactions take place between individuals who are symmetrically placed, i.e. They are exchanging as equals, neither being in a dominant position.

reciprocity

Economy; Economics

Doing as you are done by. A grants B certain privileges on the condition that B grants the same privileges to A. Most international economic agreements, for example, on trade, ...

psychoanalysis

Health care; Psychiatry

A school of psychology and a method of treating mental disorders.

psychosomatic disorder

Health care; Psychiatry

One of the most common psychiatric disorders found in general practice. It is a condition of dysfunction or structural damage in bodily organs through inappropriate activation of ...

psychotherapy

Health care; Psychiatry

An intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychotherapists to aid a or in problems of living. Also known as the treatment of people diagnosed with mental and ...

instinct

Health care; Psychiatry

Inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli; "the spawning instinct in salmon"; "altruistic instincts in social animals"

suicide

Health care; Psychiatry

The deliberate taking of one's own life.

alcoholism

Health care; Psychiatry

Physical dependence on alcohol to the extent that stopping alcohol use will bring on withdrawal symptoms. In popular and therapeutic parlance, the term may also be used to refer ...