PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION Proceedings XXI National Congress Italian Psychological Association, Clinical and Dynamic Section, Milan-27-29 September 2019, SYMPOSIUM SESSION
The donation of human organ and tissues is a prosocial behavior which is particularly
relevant for our society. Although these kinds of donation usually do not entail financial
costs nor painful procedures for the donors, adequate supplies to meet the demand for
these materials are rarely achieved by national health systems and this calls for more
research aimed at targeting the best behavioral intervention for promoting donation.
One problematic regards the proportion of eligible donors which are usually a small