After the successful completion of the module, students will be capable of transferring findings and methodological approaches of decision, network and motivation theory to a context-specific case, and to use discursive skills to review and validate this.
In detail:
The students will understand the scientific derivation and meaning of the ideas of man and their connection with more quantitatively or qualitatively oriented behavioural models.
They will be able to identify the essential motives for action and optimisation strategies of a (limited) rational person and reflect critically on them (Level 1).
They will be able to recognise how different network roles, structures and relationships affect human behaviour and discursively represent different perspectives (Level 2).
They will be aware of the interaction of motivation and cognition, and to the consequences this can have for human optimisation behaviour (Level 3).
They will be capable of applying the knowledge gained in the three levels to a self-developed case, and to further develop the case with increasing complexity of context factors.
They will have been taught to communicate and reflect on the individual findings of a tandem partner and within the group, and to face a critical discourse (e.g. in the context of a role play).

The content is based on research-based and interdisciplinary set up discussion of the idea of man at the interface with:

• Global cooperation

• Sustainability strategies in an environmental context

• Multi-stakeholder environment

The idea of man is extended by three steps:

• Homo economicus and limited rationality

• Homo socialis and the intercultural references

• Multiple self and cognition

The resulting optimization strategies are analyzed, critically discussed and transferred to one’s own application example, even against the background of complex adaptive systems.

• Ainslie, G. (1986): Beyond microeconomics. Conflict among interests in a multiple self as a determinant of value. in: Elster, J. (ed.), The multiple self, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 133-176

• Andreasen, N.C. (2005): The creative brain, Plume Book, New York

• Boyer (2012): Institutions as cause for incomplete negotiations, in: Faure, G.O. / Cede, F. (eds.), Unfinished Business - Why international negotiations fail, University of Georgia Press, London, 220-240

• Burger-Menzel, Bettina (2016): Environmental Politics and the Human Being: A New Interdisciplinary Perspective on Motivational Processes and Sustainable Change Behavior, Global Cooperation Research Papers 13, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), Duisburg

• Clayton, A.M.H.; Radcliffe, N.J. (1996): Sustainability - A Systems Approach, Earthscan Publications Ltd., London

• Deutsch, M. (2012): A Theory of Cooperation - Competition and Beyond, in: Van Lange, P.A.M.; Kruglanski, A.W.; Higgins, E.T. (eds.), Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology, London, 275-294

• Elster, J. (2010): Emotional Choice and Rational Choice, in: Goldie, P. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 263-282

• Kahneman (2002): Maps of bounded rationality: A perspective on intuitive judgment and choice, Prize Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, December

• Moore, C.W. (2010): Introduction to Culture and Negotiation, in: Jossey-Bass. (ed.), Handbook of Global and Multicultural Negotiation, site.ebrary.com/id/10366438, 3-19 (accessed on 09.06.2014)

• Rogers, E.M. (2003): Diffusion of Innovations, Free Press, New York

• von Stein, J. (2010): International Law: Understanding Compliance and Enforcement, in: The International Studies Encyclopedia, Robert A. Blackwell Publishing, Denemark, 1-16

• Williamson, O.E. (1981): The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach, in: American Journal of Sociology 87 (November), 548-577

Instruction in seminars with group exercises, student discus-sion forums with ownership of content and process organisa-tion as well as an application forum guided by the lecturer.

English

Written examination, compiled exam or scientific paper with presentation

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Written examination, compiled exam or scientific paper with presentation