Can infants already distinguish between what is morally right and wrong? This video explores experiments with babies to answer these questions.
Concept: Fairness
When people must share things, what does it mean to share fairly? Do all people around the world have the same idea of what
A cooperation game that lets students experience some of the challenges of cooperation in addressing global climate change
Students explore the principles that allow groups to work together and achieve common goals, applying them to the groups that they are a part
A set of behavioral experiments across cultures that explore the human sense of fairness.
These lesson materials introduce students to issues of fairness and various interpretations of it. Reflecting on results of a cross-cultural experiment with children, students
Students explore two contrasting stories about the benefits and failures of capitalism, identify the moral intuitions behind each story, and write a third story
A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.
Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But