Evolutionary Thinking
Can infants already distinguish between what is morally right and wrong? This video explores experiments with babies to answer these questions.
Born good? Babies help unlock the origins of morality 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 »
A behavioral experiment across 40 countries that explored human motivations to return lost wallets to their owner
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 »
A comparative behavioral research experiment exploring the abilities of chimpanzees and of children to cooperate around a shared resource.
Chimps or children – who is better at sharing resources? 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 »
OpenEvo is an educational innovation project from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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