Most traditional education includes some key life lessons. Among these is the feeling of paying it forward. There are many different proverbs to describe this event; “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “One good deed deserves another.” The idea of ​​reciprocity is such a generalized norm that people often don't realize they're partaking in this behavior. These reciprocal behaviors can often be very simple; holding a door, offering favors, and sharing some of your time can help establish equity in relationships. People keep track of good things done for them so that they can repay these good deeds. Being in debt to someone is a situation that most people are uncomfortable with. Often this decision to help is based on sympathy. Sympathy is a precursor to relationships in which fairness would be practiced. In a study of children and their helping behaviors, sociometric status, the degree to which a person is liked by his or her peers, was a determining factor in children's decision-making. Those who had high sociometric status, or were generally considered nice by their classmates, generally received the most help even when they themselves did not engage in much helping behavior (Marcus and Jenny 1977). Although they often did not reciprocate the implicit help the personality that had been formed by their classmates was strong enough to counteract this. Students with high sociometric status had already established themselves as someone who deserved help from classmates. The implicit theories were strong enough that the absence of prosocial behavior could not influence classmates to think differently of them. In Lynn and Greenberg's study of codependents and hell...... half of the paper ......and Survey of Life Experiences: A Decontaminated Problem-Free Scale for Adults. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 15, 221-Lyon, D., & Greenberg, J. (1991). Evidence of codependency in women with an alcoholic parent: Helping Mr. Wrong. Journal of Personality and Social Behavior, 61 (3), 435-439.Marcus, R. F., & Jenny, B. (1977). A naturalistic study of reciprocity in young children's helping behavior. The Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 23 (3), 195-206. Snyder, C. R. (1994). The psychology of hope: you can get there from here. New York: FreePress.Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent's self-image. Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversity PressYinon, Y., Dovrat, M., & Avni, A. (1981). The reciprocity-arousal potential of employment and seeker helping behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 11 (3), 252-258.