# thanks (social)

A polite action directed toward another

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: language  ·  Arena: everyday

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [polite](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-polite.social), [action](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-action.deed), [toward](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-toward.spatial)

**Through:** When a polite action is directed toward another, it produces thanks

**Novel properties:**
- recognition of benefit received
- social closure through acknowledgment
- asymmetric positive valuation

## Examples
- At the 2019 Nobel Prize banquet, each laureate shook the king's hand and said 'tack' in Swedish. *(institutions)*
- The Mars rover Curiosity transmitted a preprogrammed 'thanks for support' signal to NASA's Deep Space Network on August 6, 2017. *(engineering)*
- In Osaka, customers at a 7-Eleven store bowed slightly while saying 'arigato' after receiving change on March 12, 2022. *(everyday life)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thanks.social*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-thanks.social.json*  
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