Hi everyone! My paper on cognitive representations of relationships and their developmental origins is finally out! I had a blast responding to the commentary and was honored to be able to engage with people who laid the foundation for my research program. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We also asked whether minimal descriptions of relationships shape people's behavior in incentivized economic games. In these cases, people also expected a precedent — even when it meant repeatedly giving at a personal cost — except for the relationship was equal.
Overall, most classic evidence for reciprocity and turn-taking comes from experiments between anonymous strangers, who are implicitly equal. Our results suggest that this might be a special case, and that much of social life seems to run on following a precedent.