SSM Annual Meeting 2025

The 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Science of Motivation (SSM) will take place in person on Thursday, May 22, 2025, at the Washington Hilton in Washington D.C., in conjunction with the 37th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

This year’s meeting will feature symposia with speakers from diverse fields—including social and developmental psychology, cognitive science, and AI—to foster new collaborations and tackle shared questions at the cutting edge of motivation science.

This year’s meeting will be organized by David Melnikoff, Stanford Graduate School of Business. We extend our gratitude to David for his efforts in organizing the annual meeting.

Submissions

This year's meeting encourages presentations that explore the topic of motivation, broadly construed, with contributions from fields such as social psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and AI. Researchers are welcome to submit for one of two presentation formats:

Single Papers (in-person only): These will undergo a review process and, if selected, will be organized into 75-minute symposia alongside three other single papers on related topics. If not selected for this presentation format, you will automatically be considered for a poster (unless you elect not to be).

Posters (in-person only): As our largest programming format, posters will be displayed during a 60-minute session, allowing for live, interactive engagement. All poster presenters are required to bring a printed poster for display on a traditional poster board at the meeting.


The call for submissions is now OPEN until February 1st. Please submit your contribution here:
https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pwijP1jIfDqgwS


Call for APS Annual Convention 2025, May 22-26

APS’s call for the annual convention in 2025 will open at the end of October and remain open until December 11, 2025.

Submission formats include symposia, submitted talks (NEW!), flash talks, and posters. For more information on the formats, please visit the meeting’s website.


 


Welcome to the SSM 

The Society for the Science of Motivation is an international, interdisciplinary organization of researchers who study motivation. Its mission is to encourage inquiry into all aspects of motivation from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, and to facilitate the dissemination of findings to a broad scientific audience. 

The SSM provides a forum for the exchange of scientific information, foster discussion of new ideas and findings on motivation among researchers, and encourages exchange and collaboration in research. It will do this through a list serve, online information exchange, annual conferences, and a journal dedicated exclusively to motivation research.