Call for Abstracts Now Open

Please consider submitting a paper or poster abstract to be presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society held in Denver, Colorado, USA, from November 20-23, 2025. For more details about how to prepare by membership category, please review the submission guidelines here. The deadline is June 5.

You can access the abstract submission portal through your Psychonomic Society member account or by clicking the button below. Please be sure your submission category matches your membership level. You must be a member in good standing (2025 member dues paid) in order to submit an abstract. To submit an abstract as a non-member, please contact Member Services.

New for 2025: Data Blitz Presentations

Graduate Student Members may apply to present a “Data Blitz,” a short, focused 5-minute presentation followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. These opportunities are limited as only 2 Data Blitz presentations will be selected for a given talk session. Approximately 30 - 40 submissions are anticipated to be selected for Data Blitz presentations. To be considered, select the Data Blitz option during abstract submission. The deadline is June 5. More.

Call for Applications: Travel Awards

Graduate Student Members are encouraged to apply for this year's J. Frank Yates Student Travel Award, Graduate Travel Award, and Student Travel Award from Developing Nations. Apply for these awards using the abstract submission system. Log in to the abstract system using your PS member username and password. The deadline is May 8.

In response to the current political climate affecting our scientific community, the Psychonomic Society's Governing Board is proud to announce several new and expanded support programs for 2025:

• Enhanced Graduate Student Travel Support: We've doubled the number of travel awards for our Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA, including the Yates Student Travel Award, Graduate Travel Award, and Student Travel Award from Developing Nations.

• Membership Fee Waivers: Comprehensive assistance for members experiencing financial hardship, including waived 2025 dues and registration fees across all membership categories.

• Emergency Hardship Fund: Specialized support for former US Government employees affected by changes in U.S. government employment, offering complimentary registration and expense reimbursement.

• Member Support Fund: A new initiative where the Society will match contributions up to $25,000 to help members maintain their benefits despite employment disruptions.

Visit the links above for additional information.

2026 Election

Call for Governing Board Nominations

The Call for Nominations is now open and the final ballot will include six nominees: three selected from the top nominations submitted by the membership and three selected by the Nominations Committee of the Governing Board. The two individuals receiving the most votes will serve a six-year term from 2026 to 2031.

Members, Fellows, Emeritus Members, and Emeritus Fellows may nominate up to four persons to serve on the Governing Board. Nominations may not include any current members of the Governing Board. Students are not eligible to vote. The deadline is June 30. More.

Groundbreaking Large-Scale Social Outcomes in Psychological Phenomena: From Measurement to Interventions

Alin Coman

Princeton University, USA

April 23

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM U.S. ET  | Register Now

Abstract

What binds people together in communities – from small groups such as families to large ones such as nations – is the degree to which they share memories of their past, they endorse similar beliefs, and they synchronize their emotions following group-relevant events. In this talk, I will present a research program to study how communities dynamically form these collective phenomena. Using experiments that involve conversational interactions in social networks, I will show how large-scale social outcomes (i.e., collective memories, collective beliefs, and collective emotions) emerge out of micro-level local dynamics (i.e., memory updating, belief revision, and emotion contagion). This social-interactionist approach provides a framework for not only measuring, but also intervening on collective phenomena in communities of individuals, with implications for a variety of topics: from diminishing the spread of misinformation in networks to reducing negative emotions in intergroup conflict.  

All talks in the One World Seminar Series are underwritten by the Psychonomic Society and made available free of charge. The Psychonomic Society is committed to programmatic accessibility and has secured ASL interpretation and quality closed captioning for all One World events in the 2024-2025 schedule.

Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee

Welcomes Two New Members

The Graduate Student and Postdoc Commitee, together with Governing Board member Monica Castelhano, is pleased to welcome two new members this year: Giovanna Del Sordo, New Mexico State University, USA and Noah Britt, McMaster University, Canada.

The Graduate Student & Postdoc Committee (GSPC) champions the growth and participation of trainees and early career professionals in cognitive and experimental psychology. More.

Thank you to our 2024 reviewers!

Peer review is a critical part of ensuring the quality and credibility of our journals, and reviewers play a vital role in this process by evaluating the validity, originality, and rigor of submitted manuscripts. Without the dedication of these expert reviewers, the publication of our high-quality research would not be possible.

The Editors-in-Chief, Publications Committee, and Governing Board would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation for the invaluable service provided by the thousands of reviewers who have worked with our journals last year.

2024 Reviewer Acknowledgements

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (AP&P)

 Behavior Research Methods (BRM)

 Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN)

Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications (CR:PI)

Learning & Behavior (L&B)

 Memory & Cognition (M&C)

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for one or more of our journals, please contact us at info@psychonomic.org and include [Journal Name] Reviewer Request in the subject line. All reviewers are carefully selected by our editorial teams who balance experience levels, research interests, publication history, and volunteer status amongst other factors in consideration of requests. Please understand that our editorial teams are unable to grant reviewer status to all that apply.

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