After the Greenway family accepted their neighbor's invitation to Thanksgiving dinner,Mrs.Greenway felt obligated to invite the neighbors to Christmas dinner.Mrs.Greenway's sense of obligation most likely resulted from
A) the ingroup bias.
B) the reciprocity norm.
C) superordinate goals.
D) the mere exposure effect.

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The reciprocity norm is the social expectation that people will help those who have helped them. Mrs. Greenway may have felt obligated to invite the neighbors to Christmas dinner because they had previously invited her family to Thanksgiving dinner, thus creating a sense of reciprocity.

After the Greenway Family Accepted Their Neighbor's Invitation to Thanksgiving