Evaluation Competency
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 »
Students identify the moral intuitions underlying people’s opinions in quoted texts and images.
Noticing moral intuitions Read More »
In this lesson students explore the causes and functions of, as well as ways to flexibly relate to our moral intuitions by engaging the analogy to our taste buds.
A set of behavioral experiments across cultures that explore the human sense of fairness.
Game theory: Ultimatum and Dictator game Read More »
In this lesson students sort their own experience of thinking into fast and slow processes. Based on this, they come to understand that our thinking is shaped through experience such that things we do often and regularly become easier over time.
Fast thinking or slow thinking Read More »
Students reflect on the causes and consequences of human behaviors in situations of social interactions, and are introduced to the payoff matrix as a helpful tool to represent motivations and outcomes of behaviors.
Introduction to social dilemmas and the payoff matrix Read More »
This NetLogo computer model extends the model Two Foresters and introduces a bigger and more complex population structure
NetLogo: Two communities Read More »
An interactive introduction into concepts of ecology, behavioral ecology, and sustainability with a computer simulation of a simple social-ecological system.
NetLogo: Two Foresters Read More »
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