Evaluation Competency
Students explore two contrasting stories about the benefits and failures of capitalism, identify the moral intuitions behind each story, and write a third story about capitalism that integrates aspects of both stories.
Two stories of capitalism Read More »
Students explore how a honeybee swarm makes a decision about their future nesting site, and explore the similarities and differences to how human groups make decisions.
Honeybee Democracy Read More »
Lesson plan and worksheets to apply understandings of moral psychology in classroom discussions about ethical issues
Discussion guide about moral issues Read More »
In this unit students explore stories of people who have left a radical movement, or deliberately discuss with representatives of the “other side” and build respectful relationships. These let us explore the circumstances, experiences and insights about why prejudice, hatred and violence against other people or a group can arise and how they can dissolve again.
True stories of people who left radical movements Read More »
In a classroom simulation game with changing conditions students develop strategies for the use of a common resource so that the profit for the entire group is maximized.
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.
Collective Action Puzzle Game Read More »
A behavioral experiment that tells us about the role of unconscious perception, particularly the perception of human eyes, on human social behavior.
Perception of eyes and prosocial behavior Read More »
A set of behavioral experiments to find out what motivates people to save electricity, exploring the roles of monetary incentives, social norms, appeals to the environment or to citizenship.
What motivates people to save energy Read More »
In this lesson students learn about the concept of cognitive biases as well as a number of important cognitive biases that may affect our well-being and social interactions, identify their causes in evolutionary history, their functions, and reflect on how to cope with cognitive biases.
Function of cognitive biases Read More »
An overview of six important human moral intuitions
Moral intuitions handout Read More »
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