Reciprocated cooperation teaches one to internalize others’ interests

Evidence

In this experiment, the standard trust game and the mutual help trust game exhibit two very different patterns. In the standard game, the more you give, the greater are your rights to the money and the greater the amount of money you receive. In the mutual help game, the more you give to the other participant, the greater the amount of money she keeps. This contrast makes clear sense in a mutualistic morality of fairness and impartiality. Every gift creates an obligation. The character of the obligation, however, varies according to the kind of partnership involved. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 166 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

I designate as the content—the materials, so to speak—of sociation everything that is present in individuals (the immediately concrete loci of all historical reality)—drive, interest, purpose, inclination, psychic state, movement—everything that is present in them in such a way as to engender or mediate effects upon others or to receive such effects. In themselves, these materials which fill life, these motivations which propel it, are not social. Strictly speaking, neither hunger nor love, work nor religiosity, technology nor the functions and results of intelligence, are social. They are factors in sociation only when they transform the mere aggregation of isolated individuals into specific forms of being with and for one another, forms that are subsumed under the general concept of interaction. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reciprocity motivations can be self-reinforcing where further interactions are plentiful; Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194; Reciprocal trust creates mutual incentives for trustworthiness — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 166 (+5 more)

Related

• Reciprocity motivations can be self-reinforcing where further interactions are plentiful (similarity 0.91)
• Reciprocal trust creates mutual incentives for trustworthiness (similarity 0.86)
• Forced interdependence can generate trust almost instantly (similarity 0.85)
• Cooperative relationships require asymmetric giving at their outset (similarity 0.81)
• Future gains from continued interaction function as both incentive and sanction for trust. (similarity 0.81)
• Morality requires mutual advantage, not strict accounting of reciprocated acts. (similarity 0.80)
• Generalized reciprocity emerges from frequent diverse interaction and boosts efficiency (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms (similarity 0.80)
• Mutualistic reciprocity succeeds where individual competition would fail under stress (similarity 0.80)
• Trustworthiness carries the moral burden because short-run incentives favor betrayal (similarity 0.80)
• Reciprocal altruism is really mutualism, not altruism (similarity 0.80)
• Natural selection favors both the disposition to reciprocate and to volunteer help proactively. (similarity 0.80)
• Mature relationships make trust overdetermined by multiple independent motives (similarity 0.79)
• Reciprocal trust multiplies each party’s incentive to be trustworthy (similarity 0.79)
• State unreliability cascades into mutual distrust that blocks cooperation (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Reciprocal trust creates mutual incentives for trustworthiness #corroborates (0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 166
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #expands (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194
• Reciprocity motivations can be self-reinforcing where further interactions are plentiful #expands (0.80)
• Genetically evolved sentiments can motivate action against self-interest #corroborates (0.75)