PROSOCIAL

The PROSOCIAL project is a large collaborative project funded by Leibniz 2025-2028. Institutional partners involved are, among others, RWI Essen, University Hamburg, PIK and many expert individual researchers like Mark Andor (RWI), Andreas Lange (U Hamburg), Lorenz Goette (NUS), René Bekkers (VU Amsterdam), Steffen Huck (WZB), Isabel Thielmann (MPI), Linus Mattauch (PIK & TU Berlin), and others.

In this project, we will investigate how to promote prosocial behavior in different domains, including monetary, blood, and in-kind donations, volunteering, and contributions to sustainability. Based on a conceptual framework, we will develop interventions to promote prosocial behavior and test them in a series of coordinated field experiments. In addition, we will conduct population surveys to study other forms of prosocial behavior, such as organ donation, and to examine support for policies that pursue prosocial and sustainable goals. We will investigate how support for such policies depends on the information provided and the specific policy design. To empirically validate our conceptual framework, we will then synthesize the results of our coordinated field experiments and surveys into a meta-study. The resulting findings will provide a new, domain-independent understanding of prosocial behavior – a gap in the literature that still remains to be filled.

For more information visit the Leibniz project page here (in German).