Thinking Tools
Thinking tools are used across diverse lessons to develop the skills that evolutionary anthropologists, behavioral scientists, and sustainability scientists use in exploring the causes and consequences of human behavior, and the complex relationships in social-ecological systems.
Using these tools across content promotes transfer of learning across themes in evolution, behavior, and sustainability science.
Analogy mapping
Analogy mapping is a tool for thinking about similarities and differences between different concepts or phenomena.
Causal mapping
Causal mapping helps us reflect on the interdependent relationships between agents and entities within complex systems.
Noticing Tool
The Noticing Tool helps us be aware of and interpret our experiences and behaviors in the present and to orient our behaviors towards valued living.
Payoff matrices
Payoff matrices can help us analyze the behavioral strategies and possible outcomes in diverse situations across biology and society.
Structure of Knowledge Diagrams
Simple diagrams can help us map and understand the structures of knowledge in our world.
Tinbergen’s Questions
Tinbergen’s Questions can help organize complex causality of behaviors and other phenomena across time.
