Growing Pack Behavior in Juvenile Homo Sapiens
by tdaxp ~ November 30th, 2006
I threw together this presentation, entitled Growing Pack Behavior in Juvenile Homo Sapiens — or — Making Kids Play Nice for an in-class presentation today presentation.
Enjoy!
Putting Humanity, and Schools, in Context
We’re the Cooperative Ones
Schools as Gardens
An Obvious Polymorphism
Guess which one wasn’t in our text?
An absolute majority of people are Wary Cooperators
Free-Riders Go Home!
Ways of Influencing Peer Pressure
Exploit Social Bonds
Little Kids
Bigger Kids
What Changes During School
The Conclusion
Feed-back?
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November 30th, 2006 at 12:00 am
How long before it clicked with someone that you manipulated them into pro-social behaviors ? ;O)
” Mr. tdaxp, I think that's….HEY!!!”
November 30th, 2006 at 12:00 am
great Xmas movie quote:
'A + + +! O, Ralphie!'
but no pertinent feedback.
any interesting responses in class?
December 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am
Sean,
Thanks for the props! There was an interesting discussion on the moral implications of moving people away from altruism towards wary cooperation.
“Altruism” as second-order free-riding is an important realization, and one that takes a while to sink in.
Mark,
Curtis thought something similar [1]
It would be interesting to see how students with metacognition react to this sort of manipulation…
[1] http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/11/reflecting_on_r.php
December 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am
Henceforth, I will leave only bare comments on TDAXP and reserve the longer comments for Phatic Communion!
Thanks for the link, Dan! I've left another as a trackback…
December 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am
Curtis,
I responded [1], but twice, accidentally!
I agree with your comments on blogspirit — check out the Jim River Reports from the latter part of today [2]
[1] http://www.phaticcommunion.com/archives/2006/12/gardens_for_chi.php
[2] http://www.jimriverreport.com/archive/jim_river_report_20061201.html