In this lesson students explore the causes and functions of, as well as ways to flexibly relate to our moral intuitions by engaging the
Concept: Moral cognition
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
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
Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But