Reciprocity

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Reciprocity may refer to:

Social sciences and humanities

• Reciprocity (cultural anthropology), way of defining people's informal exchange of goods and labour
• Reciprocity (evolution), mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation
• Reciprocity (international relations), principle that favours, benefits, or penalties that are granted by one state to the citizens or legal entities of another, should be returned in kind
• Reciprocity (social and political philosophy), concept of reciprocity as in-kind positive or negative responses for the actions of others; relation to justice; related ideas such as gratitude, mutuality, and the Golden Rule
• Reciprocity (social psychology), in-kind positive or negative responses of individuals towards the actions of others
• Ethic of reciprocity, the "Golden Rule" principle in ethics and religion
• Norm of reciprocity, social norm of in-kind responses to the behavior of others
• Serial reciprocity, where the benefactor of a gift or service will in turn provide benefits to a third party

Professional Certification

• The acceptance of one license, usually requiring application, in another area (usually state). See handguns, medical professional (including EMS and nurses), firemen, lawyers.

Natural sciences and mathematics

• Reciprocity (electromagnetism), theorems relating sources and the resulting fields in classical electromagnetism
• Reciprocity (mathematics)
• Reciprocity (network theory), theorem about transfer function of passive networks
• Reciprocity of twist and wrench, in screw theory

Particular

• Reciprocity (Canadian politics)
• Reciprocity (photography), the relationship between the intensity of the light and duration of the exposure that result in identical exposure
• Traffic violations reciprocity where non-resident drivers are treated like residents

See also

• Mutual assent in Contract law, sometimes called Reciprocity
• Symbiosis, an interaction between two organisms living together in more or less intimate association
• Reciprocal
• Reciprocation

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