Symposium Submissions for SPSP 2011 are Closed
The 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology will be held on January 27-29, in San Antonio, Texas. The SPSP Program Committee invites proposals for both symposia and posters.
To submit a symposium, read the following information carefully and then click Submit a Symposium at the bottom of this page.
The deadline for submitting a poster or symposium is July 20, 2010.
The chair and co-chair of the symposium and the first author of each symposium abstract must each be an SPSP member or student member and have paid his or her dues for the 2010 calendar year. Co-authors of a symposium abstract are not required to be SPSP members.
If you are not yet a member and wish to join, please see the SPSP Membership page, where you can join SPSP or renew your membership online.
An individual may be FIRST AUTHOR on only ONE poster submission OR may serve only ONCE as a symposium speaker. Individuals may, however, be co-authors on more than one paper (symposium and poster). It is the responsibility of the symposia organizers to verify that speakers in their symposia have not submitted their names as speakers in other symposia or are first author on a poster. Failing to do so may result in a symposium being rejected. Individuals are not allowed to switch speaker roles after submission.
To better ensure the chance for audience questions, and for more free-ranging discussion between symposia participants and their audiences, no discussants are allowed in symposia.
Each symposium must have either three or four speakers. This rule was also adopted to encourage more discussion and speaker-audience interchange.
Our online system has been improved to contain your abstract submission, your meeting registration, and your contact information in a single account. When you start the submission or registration process for the first time you will be taken to the SPSP Membership site (spsp.org) to confirm or renew your membership. After your membership is confirmed, you will be returned to the Meeting website (spsmeeting.org) to create your account and complete your submission or registration.
Seventy-five minute spoken presentations, including three or four talks on a common topic, printed as symposia abstracts in the Proceedings. Symposium submissions must include titles, abstracts of up to 250 words plus the affiliation(s) and email address for each speaker, and a 250-word (maximum) summary describing and justifying the symposium theme. Include audio/visual requirements.
Submissions will be reviewed with regard to scholarly/theoretical merit, soundness of methodology, relevance to social and personality psychology, clarity of presentation, significance, and originality. Final selection among submissions deemed meritorious will be made with an eye toward achieving a balanced and broadly representative program.
At the end of the submission process, you will see a page confirming completion of your submission. A button is provided to allow you to email a copy of your submission to yourself.
After you create your SPSP Meeting Account you will receive an email that contains the login information to your account. You can login and revise your submission through the submission deadline of July 20, 2010. No revisions are allowed after the submission deadline.
Go to the Account Login page to access your submission.
All communication between submitters and SPSP is done via email. It's important that the email address in your submission remain a current and active email address or you will not receive important communications about the SPSP meeting and your submission.