The tendency to return feelings and attitudes that are expressed about us, or to seek what we perceive as a balance in a relationship between others' feelings toward us and our feelings towards them is called ______.

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The description matches the concept of reciprocity, which refers to the tendency for people to respond in similar ways to how they are treated or how others feel about them. Propinquity refers to physical proximity or nearness, complementarity refers to the idea that people are attracted to those who have different qualities or abilities than themselves, and synergy refers to the idea that the combined efforts of two or more people can produce greater results than their individual efforts. None of these concepts fully match the description given.

The Tendency to Return Feelings and Attitudes That Are Expressed