Looking Back: SSM Annual Meeting 2025

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Science of Motivation was held in-person on Thursday, May 22, 2025, in advance of the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Washington DC.
 
This year's meeting encouraged 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.

This years' presenters included

• Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)
• Amitai Shenhav (UC Berkeley)
• Arie Kruglanski (University of Maryland)
• Catalina Köpetz (Wayne State University)
• Mickey Inzlicht (University of Toronto)
• Tali Sharot (University of College London)
• Laura Schulz (MIT)
• Jacqueline Gottlieb (Columbia University)
• Maya Tamir (The Hebrew University)
• Ayelet Fishbach (University of Chicago Booth)
• Luiz Pessoa (University of Maryland)
• Abigail Scholer (University of Virginia)
• Gordon Pennycook (Cornell University)
• Cailin O’Connor (UC Irvine)
• James Druckman (University of Rochester)
• Erin Westgate (University of Florida)
• Wouter Kool (Washington University in St. Louis)
• James Danckert (University of Waterloo)
• Matthew Apps (University of Birmingham)
• Emily Liquin (University of New Hampshire)