In this lesson students explore the causes and functions of, as well as ways to flexibly relate to our moral intuitions by engaging the
Subject Area: Social Studies
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
A behavioral experiment across 40 countries that explored human motivations to return lost wallets to their owner
Students explore two contrasting stories about the benefits and failures of capitalism, identify the moral intuitions behind each story, and write a third story
Students explore how a honeybee swarm makes a decision about their future nesting site, and explore the similarities and differences to how human groups
In this unit students explore stories of people who have left a radical movement, or deliberately discuss with representatives of the “other side” and
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
Students reflect on the causes and consequences of human behaviors in situations of social interactions, and are introduced to the payoff matrix as a
