The purpose of these lessons are to help low functioning individuals with deficits in empathy to understand a world in which they are psychologically disabled.
Lesson: Ordinary people value intentions and moral cognition over objective value
Example: "In experiments utilizing a dictator game (a scenario designed to test game theoretic behavior), people re-ciprocated in like measure to apparently prosocial acts ofgiving, but reciprocated more selfishly to apparentlyantisocial acts of taking, even when the objective outcomesof the acts of giving and taking were identical. Additionalresults demonstrate that acts of giving in social exchangesare perceived as more generous than objectively identicalacts of taking, that taking tends to escalate, and that theasymmetry in reciprocity is not due to gaining versus losingresources."
Application: People want to process information and feel in control.