Human Beings Behavior Reflection Analysis

Write a general reflection/analysis/commentary on the attached readings and write about how the concepts learned apply (if applicable) to your daily life, a current political event or a feature of your cultural background.

– Raise new questions about the readings

– And challenge concepts presented in readings

-Also try to find any missing links

GRADING RUBRIC:

1. Writing is clear and logically organized. There are few or no grammatical mistakes, clearly the students have proof read their work. Paragraphs make sense individually: they state an idea and provide supporting arguments.

2. The students smoothly tie a real-world phenomenon to the content of the reading.

3. The real-world phenomenon is also analyzed in a critical way: what is lacking in the reading that can be meaningful to appreciate and understand reality?

Required Readings: (all attached)

1. Chapters 1 and 2 of De Waal, Frans. The bonobo and the atheist: In search of humanism among the

primates. WW Norton & Company, 2013.

2. Bernhardt, Boris C., and Tania Singer. ìThe neural basis of empathy.îAnnual review of neuroscience35 (2012): 1-23. (Read Abstract, Pgs 1-7 and the summary points in pgs 16 and 17)

3. Alós-Ferrer, Carlos. A review essay on Social neuroscience: Can research on the social brain and economics inform each other?.î Journal of Economic Literature 56, no. 1 (2018): 234-64. (Read Section 1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2)