Can infants tell right from wrong? And if so, how would you know? Come to Yale’s baby lab. Lesley Stahl reports.
Grade or Expertise Level: 6-8
This lesson is about exploring the concept of values with students and having them identify and reflect on what they personally value, or what
A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.
In a classroom simulation game with changing conditions students develop strategies for the use of a common resource so that the profit for the
A group game that lets students experience the dilemma between self-interest and collective interest when groups have to work together to achieve shared goals.
A behavioral experiment that tells us about the role of unconscious perception, particularly the perception of human eyes, on human social behavior.
A set of behavioral experiments to find out what motivates people to save electricity, exploring the roles of monetary incentives, social norms, appeals to
Students identify the moral intuitions underlying people’s opinions in quoted texts and images.
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