The PROSOCIAL Virtual Seminar is an open online series exploring research from various
areas of prosocial behavior, including but not limited to monetary donations, blood donations, organ donations, volunteering, and pro-environmental behavior.

Every second Tuesday of the month, 2:30–3:30 p.m. CET, on Microsoft Teams.

Upcoming presentations
13.01.2026 Nicola Lacetera — University of Bologna
10.02.2026 Roland Bénabou — Princeton University
10.03.2026 Natalie Sebanz — Central European University
14.04.2026 Karine Nyborg — University of Oslo
12.05.2026 Ragan Petrie — Texas A&M University
09.06.2026 Jana Gallus — UCLA Anderson School of Management
08.09.2026 René Bekkers — VU Amsterdam
13.10.2026 Bertil Tungodden — NHH Norwegian School of Economics
10.11.2026 Paul van Lange — VU Amsterdam
08.12.2026 Alex Imas — University of Chicago

For more information and sign up please visit https://www.rwi-essen.de/forschung-beratung/forschungsgruppen/prosoziales-verhalten/forschungsprojekte/prosocial-virtual-seminar

If you have any questions or comments regarding the seminar series, please contact us at seminar.prosocial@rwi-essen.de.

If you want to join the mailing list, please write an email to seminar.prosocial@rwi-essen.de with the following text: “I would like to join the PROSOCIAL Virtual Seminar mailing list to receive regular updates about upcoming presentations in the PROSOCIAL Virtual Seminar and how to register for them”. One week before each seminar, you’ll receive an email with all the information you need to register for that session.

The virtual seminar was developed as part of the Stimulating Prosocial Behavior (PROSOCIAL) project.

Session 1

Hosted on Tuesday December 2, 2025

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Session 2

Hosted on Thursday December 4, 2025

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Link to the Powerpoint Presentation

Link to the two page project overview

Link to the google form to express interest in participating in the project. Filling out this form will enable us to keep track of expressions of interest and to help with matchmaking where there are multiple expressions from one country.  

Thank you for the helpful feedback provided in the online sessions.  We will incorporate this into the proposal. 

I look forward to keeping in touch as this project evolves. 

- Megan Haddock