Prosocial Core Design Principles

Beliefs About Well-Being Scale

In this questionnaire, people are asked about their beliefs about well-being by indicating the degree to which they believe that certain aspects are a necessary and required aspect of the experience of high well-being and living the good life. It is based on a study that showed that people’s beliefs about wellbeing can affect their actual wellbeing.

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Noticing Tool

Susan Hanisch

The Noticing Tool helps us be aware of and interpret our experiences and behaviors in the present and to orient our behaviors towards valued living.

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Wilson, D. S., Ostrom, E., & Cox, M. E. (2013). Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 90, S21–S32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.12.010

Dustin Eirdosh

Wilson, D. S., Ostrom, E., & Cox, M. E. (2013). Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 90, S21–S32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.12.010 Read More »

Hinkel, J., Cox, M. E., Schlüter, M., & Binder, C. R. (2018). A diagnostic procedure for applying the social-ecological systems framework in diverse cases. Ecology and Society, 20(1), 32. http://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07023-200132

Dustin Eirdosh

Hinkel, J., Cox, M. E., Schlüter, M., & Binder, C. R. (2018). A diagnostic procedure for applying the social-ecological systems framework in diverse cases. Ecology and Society, 20(1), 32. http://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07023-200132 Read More »

Wenseleers, T., Hart, A. G., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2004). When Resistance Is Useless: Policing and the Evolution of Reproductive Acquiescence in Insect Societies. The American Naturalist, 164(6), E154–E167. https://doi.org/10.1086/425223

Dustin Eirdosh

Wenseleers, T., Hart, A. G., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2004). When Resistance Is Useless: Policing and the Evolution of Reproductive Acquiescence in Insect Societies. The American Naturalist, 164(6), E154–E167. https://doi.org/10.1086/425223 Read More »

Ratnieks, F. L. W., Foster, K. R., & Wenseleers, T. (2006). Conflict Resolution in Insect Societies. Annual Review of Entomology, 51(1), 581–608. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151003

Dustin Eirdosh

Ratnieks, F. L. W., Foster, K. R., & Wenseleers, T. (2006). Conflict Resolution in Insect Societies. Annual Review of Entomology, 51(1), 581–608. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151003 Read More »

Ratnieks, F. L. W., & Wenseleers, T. (2005). Policing insect societies. Science, 307(5706), 54–56. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1106934

Dustin Eirdosh

Ratnieks, F. L. W., & Wenseleers, T. (2005). Policing insect societies. Science, 307(5706), 54–56. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1106934 Read More »

Analyzing social-ecological systems

Dustin Eirdosh

In this lesson, students analyze a select real-world social-ecological system by looking at factors of the resource(s) and ecosystem, resource user behaviors, and governance, to develop recommendations for improving the sustainable management of the resource.

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Develop University-Assisted Community Schools

Dustin Eirdosh

Develop University-Assisted Community Schools as an outgrowth of Educational Innovation Labs

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Scaffold and ensure adaptive understandings of moral psychology

Dustin Eirdosh

Humans across cultures and from early in childhood display a diversity of often strong moral beleifs and related actions in the world. Understanding the diversity and commonalities in human moral reasoning can be seen as a prequisite for engaging in public discourse on highly contentious and complex social or ecological issues. Schools can work to ensure an iterative, scaffolded, interdisciplinary curriculum that support adaptive understandings of diverse perspectives in moral psychology.

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