Exploring the Design Principles for Cooperation
Students explore the principles that allow groups to work together and achieve common goals, applying them to the groups that they are a part of or care about.
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Perception of eyes and prosocial behavior
Students are introduced to a behavioral experiment that explores the effects of images of eyes on human social behavior in a real world shared resource situation.
Students predict the outcomes of the experiment, reflect on people’s motivations to behave in certain ways with the help of a payoff matrix, and explain observed results by integrating a variety of causes.
The intervention in this experiment is an example of so-called nudges – ways to change the environment to induce humans to behave in a way that is better for them and society. Students discuss the ethics and effectiveness of such an intervention.
- Teaching material type Experiment, Full lesson plan, Payoff Matrix
- Subject Areas Biology, ESD, Ethics, Human Evolution, Interdisciplinary, Social Studies
- Learning Goals Cooperation Competency, Evaluation Competency, Evolutionary Thinking, Interdisciplinary Thinking, Metacognitive Competency
- Suitable Grade Levels 6-8, 9-12
- Concepts Cognition, Cooperation, Nudge, Perception, Social dilemma, Thinking
- Content Anchors Common-Pool Resource management, Games, Our Mind
Author: Susan Hanisch
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike [CC BY-NC-SA]
