A set of behavioral experiments across cultures that explore the human sense of fairness.
Concept: Moral cognition
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
A behavioral experiment across 40 countries that explored human motivations to return lost wallets to their owner
Students explore two contrasting stories about the benefits and failures of capitalism, identify the moral intuitions behind each story, and write a third story
Students explore how a honeybee swarm makes a decision about their future nesting site, and explore the similarities and differences to how human groups
Lesson plan and worksheets to apply understandings of moral psychology in classroom discussions about ethical issues
Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But