The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology will be held on January 26-28, 2012, in San Diego, California. The SPSP Program Committee invites proposals for Symposia, Posters, and the Data Blitz.
The deadline for submitting a symposium, poster, or Data Blitz proposal is midnight July 15, 2011 (in the last timezone on Earth).
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 2011 calendar year. Co-authors of a symposium abstract are not required to be SPSP members.
Our online system contains your abstract submission, your meeting registration, and your contact information in a single SPSP Meeting Account. When you start the submission or registration process for the first time you will be taken to the 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.
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 nor are submitting a poster as a first author. Failure to do so may result in a symposium being rejected.
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.
Seventy-five minute spoken presentations, including three or four talks on a common topic, printed as symposia abstracts in the Proceedings. Your symposium submission must include a 150-word (maximum) summary describing and justifying the symposium theme that is used for reviewing your submission, plus a 50-word maximum summary that will be used for publication. Your symposium must contain at least 3, but not more than 4 talks. For each talk you must include the talk title, an abstract of up to 150 words plus the affiliations and the email address of the speaker. The symposium title and the talk titles are limited to 20 words each.
We strongly recommend having your submissions read and edited by a native English speaker before submitting to ensure the readability and comprehension of your proposal. Failure to do so is associated with an increase in your submission being rejected from the meeting. Also, it is necessary that your submission is clear about whether the data have been already collected.
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 15, 2011. No revisions are allowed after the submission deadline. Go to the Account Login page to access your submission.
Notices of acceptance for Symposium Proposals will be emailed to the symposium chair around August 10, 2011. It is the chair's responsibility to inform the talk authors of the acceptance or non-acceptance of the symposium. If your symposium is not accepted, your talk authors may be given a one week opportunity to submit a poster in place of their talk. Instructions are included in the acceptance email.
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. Please add the domain spspmeeting.org to your email "safe senders" list to ensure that incoming emails about the SPSP Meeting do not get trapped by your junk mail filter.
If you attended last year's meeting, your SPSP Meeting Account is still active. You can log into your account and make a submission for the 2012 meeting.
If you did not attend last year's meeting, please click Create an Account. You will be taken to the SPSP Membership site (spsp.org) to verify your membership prior to creating an SPSP Meeting Account.