Reciprocity Narrative

Canonical definition

Reciprocity Narrative names the class of Confabulated post-hoc justifications that participants generate for transfers of goods, services, attention, deference, or coercive capacity, and that uniformly attribute the transfer to A-grounded need or I-endorsed value (fair return, earned compensation, mutual benefit, voluntary agreement, legitimate authority) while systematically omitting the M-component that the Decision Hub's Common-Currency Integration has erased. Reciprocity narratives are content-agnostic completions: they are sincere by the Sincerity Guarantee, internally coherent, and selected from the participant's representable Hypothesis Space, which under standard cultural conditions does not contain H-mimetic. Their accuracy is orthogonal to the structural outcomes the transactions produce (Truth-Value Orthogonality), which is why population-scale macro-residues remain diagnostic even when every participant's narrative is incorrect about source. They are the Rung 2 (dyadic-transaction) phenomenon that the Aggregation Gradient identifies as the rung at which most existing concealment analysis has been pitched. Framework-Specific Construct.