The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology will take place in Austin, Texas, February 13-15 2014.

Dear colleagues:

Do you have new data and Texas-sized ideas that you are looking forward to showing the world? Submit them to SPSP!

The next meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) will take place in Austin, Texas on February 13-15, 2014.

This purpose of this announcement is to encourage you to start thinking about potential submissions. The submission portal will open on July 1, and the final submissions deadline will be July 24th, 2013 (open until the last time zone on Earth).

Submissions for SPSP 2014 will be accepted at http://spspmeeting.org/2014/home.aspx.Thisconferencewebsite is currently under construction, but it will be ready for your submissions on July 1and at that time will have the relevant information about hotels, transportation, activities, etc.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Scholars may be first author/presenter on only one submission – either a talk or a poster, but not both. It is permissible to be the chair on more than one submission, as long as the chair has a maximum of one submission in which he or she has a speaking role. Symposium chairs should verify that speakers are not first authors/presenters on another symposium or poster, as failing to do so may result in the entire symposium being rejected. The first author on the submission must be the presenter at the conference; switching roles after submission is not allowed.

Symposium submissions: Each presentation within the symposium will be described by a title and an abstract of up to 150 words. Symposium chairs also will submit a title and two abstracts, a 150-word maximum summary that describes the symposium (for evaluation purposes) and a 50-word maximum summary suitable to print in the program. Each symposium consists of 3 or 4 presentations; discussants are not allowed.

Poster submissions: Will include a title and two abstracts, one with a 150-word maximum (for evaluation purposes) and a second 50-word maximum abstract (to be printed in the program).

Data blitz: This year's conference will again feature presentations in a data blitz format, in which junior scientists will present their work in rapid-pace form (under 5 minutes). This opportunity is available ONLY to submitters who will be either "early career members" of SPSP (e.g., postdocs--see SPSP Membership Categories page for more information) or advanced Ph.D. students (5^thyear and above in standard doctoral programs and final year in doctoral programs where students typically earn a doctoral degree in less than 5 years) at the time of the conference (February 2014). 

There are two routes to having your submission considered for the data blitz. If you submit a poster, you will have the opportunity to indicate whether you want your submission considered for the data blitz. If you are part of a symposium, you will have the chair indicate whether you would like your talk to be considered for a data blitz if the symposium is rejected (those taking this route will provide their chair with a 50-word abstract of their submission in addition to the 150 word abstract). Talks that are part of accepted symposia will not be considered for the data blitz.

ELIGIBILITY AND REQUIREMENTS

-Every presenter must be a current SPSP member at the time of the conference(February 2014).  (More information about becoming a member of SPSP for 2014 will be sent along with notifications of acceptance.)

- As noted previously, no person may be the presenter (first author) on more than 1 submission.

- Data must be collected prior to submitting. Submissions that do not meet this requirement will not be accepted.

- Abstracts must contain the specific goals of the study, methods used, summary of the results, and conclusions.

- 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.

ENGLISH EDITING SERVICES

Members of the SPSP Graduate Student Committee and other SPSP graduate student members have once again volunteered to read and edit abstracts from non-native English speakers and provide feedback. This service aims to improve the clarity of submissions, so that abstracts fare better in the review process. We strongly recommend taking advantage of this service. Please contact gsc.spsp@gmail.com with abstracts no later than June 27 if you plan to use this service.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Austin next February!

Eli Finkel and Cheryl Kaiser

SPSP 2013 Program Co-Chairs (for the 2014 conference)

The symposium and poster submission and registration process for the conference, and the hotel arrangements, are managed by FASEB, a professional meeting planning company.

If you have questions regarding registration and hotel accommodations, please contact FASEB directly, at their web site.