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Symposium Submission Information and Requirements

Symposium submissions for SPSP 2010 are closed.

The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology will be held on January 28-30, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The SPSP Program Committee invites proposals for both symposia and posters.

Deadline

The deadline for submitting a poster or symposium is 5:00 pm PST, on July 20, 2009. Symposium submissions for SPSP 2010 are now closed.

Submission Requirements

Membership Requirement

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 2009 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.

One Submission Rule

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.

Registration Requirement

All symposium speakers must register to attend the meeting.

No Discussant Rule

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.

Number of Speakers

Each symposium must have either three or four speakers. This rule was also adopted to encourage more discussion and speaker-audience interchange.

Presentation Format

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.

Submission Content

• Abstracts must contain the specific goals of the study, the methods used, a summary of the results, and a conclusion.
• Data must be collected prior to abstract submission. We will not consider abstracts for studies that have not been conducted.
• The title of the abstract should clearly define the work discussed.
• Use only standard abbreviations.
• All submissions must be in final form, ready for publication in the convention program. Please check your work carefully. No typos or other errors will be corrected.

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.

Confirmation

At the end of the submission process, you will see a page confirming completion of your submission. You can print this page for your records. A copy of your submission will also be emailed to you. If you do not receive a submission confirmation email, please .

Submission Revisions

After starting the submission process you will receive an email that contains the login information to your submission. You can login and revise your submission up to the submission deadline of 5:00 pm PST, on July 20, 2009. No revisions will be allowed after the submission deadline.

Poster submissions for SPSP 2010 are now closed.

Communication

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.