Evaluation Competency
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 »
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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