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2025 Pre-conference Workshops

SAS is pleased to announce Pre-Conference Workshops will be presented at the SAS 2025 Conference taking place in Portland, Oregon. All workshops will take place on Thursday, March 20, 2025 at the Hilton Portland Downtown.

 

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February 1, 2025

Thursday, March 20, 2025

0900-1500

Workshop 1: Clinical Affective Science Pre-Conference (NEW)

Chairs: Lisa Starr (University of Rochester) and Vera Vine (Queen’s University)

How can studying emotion processes help us better understand the nature and treatment of psychopathology? The inaugural SAS preconference on Clinical Affective Science will explore the vibrant, emerging area of research at the intersection of affective science and clinical science. Featuring invited talks and panels, submitted posters and flash talks, and networking opportunities, the event will bring together scholars at all career stages to articulate the goals and boundaries of this growing subfield.

Accepting poster and flash talk submissions

Workshop 2: Emotion Regulation Pre-Conference

Chairs: Emily Willroth (Washington University in St. Louis), Brett Q. Ford (University of Toronto), and Katie Greenaway, (University of Melbourne)

The Emotion Regulation Pre-Conference will feature emotion regulation research (broadly defined) from various disciplines and topics, consider emotion regulation from different perspectives, and share exciting new findings and methods. This year’s program will feature an early career researcher data blitz, an invited session on ecological momentary assessment methods, and multiple invited sessions on applications of emotion regulation research to pressing societal issues. Our goal is to have fun, build connections among those interested in emotion regulation (faculty, post-docs, students), and share ideas about new directions in emotion regulation research.

 

Accepting flash talk submissions from early career researchers (i.e., graduate students and individuals who received their PhD in the past 5 years).

Workshop 3: Positive Emotion Pre-Conference

Chairs: Hooria Jazaieri (Santa Clara University) and Kunalan Manokara (Duke University)

This in-person pre-conference aims to showcase recent advances in the field of positive emotions. The day will feature a keynote presentation by Prof. Jeanne Tsai, and also include five invited talks from established scholars of varied research traditions (i.e., individual well-being, interpersonal communication, intergroup processes). In addition to an interactive poster session, this pre-conference will also spotlight a series of flash talks that highlight the role of positive emotions in a range of contexts (i.e., organizational, educational, clinical). Attendees can submit abstracts to present a flash talk or a poster, with the chance to win a Best Poster or Best Flash Talk award. There will be opportunities to socialize and meet fellow positive affective scientists, including during the planned networking breaks and in-person poster session.

Accepting poster and flash talk submissions

SAS 2025 Preconference Abstract Submission

This year, SAS is hosting 3 Pre conferences on Thursday, March 20, 2025:

Clinical Affective Science

Accepting submissions for flash talks and posters

Emotion Regulation

Accepting submissions for flash talks only from early career researchers (i.e., graduate students and individuals who received their PhD in the past 5 years).”

Positive Emotion 

Accepting submissions for flash talks and posters

When preparing an abstract for submission – keep these instructions in mind:
  1. All submissions must report work that is unpublished or in press at the time of submission.
  2. Each presenting author may submit a maximum of two abstracts in total. They must be within the same pre-conference (presenting authors are allotted only one speaking role in a pre-conference).  It is acceptable to submit an abstract to a preconference that has already been submitted to the main conference.
  3. All submissions must be written in English (US spelling).
  4. Provide four keywords: TWO relating to content and TWO relating to methods associated with the submission. Select keywords carefully as they will be used to match your submission with reviewers. If more than 4 keywords are provided, the 1st four provided will be used.  NOTE: The keyword section will appear after the author section in this form.
  5. Proofread your submission! All accepted submission summaries will be posted, as-is, on the SAS website. The SAS Pre-conference Committees reserves the right to make editorial corrections to the submitted abstract if necessary. SAS is not responsible for author errors.
  6. All correspondence about submissions will be sent to the presenting author ONLY. Please provide the email address that the presenting author will be contactable on post-submission and for the duration of the conference. If the contact details entered at submission change, please contact sas@podiumconferences.com
  7. Please consider submitting well in advance of the deadline! There will be no extensions to the submission deadline.

Submission deadline: February 1, 2025

Required information for your submission

All submissions (Flash Talk or Poster) MUST include:

The TITLE OF YOUR ABSTRACT ENTERED IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

Abstract for review: (within 1600 character including spaces), the abstract should include the following information:

  • Background
  • Aims framing the research question or problem
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Conclusions including how the work makes a novel theoretical, methodological, or empirical contribution to affective science
  • OPTIONAL: authors can choose to upload one figure in PDF format (1 page)

Please note: Empirical work must include the sample size of each study and at least one statistic supporting each main result. It is insufficient to state “results will be discussed.”

Do not enter author names or affiliations in the body of your abstract reviews are meant to be blind. Author information and affiliations will be collected in the portal where reviewers will not have access/view of. Authors must be entered in the order they should appear in the program.

*By submitting an abstract, you agree to present at the SAS pre-conference should your abstract be selected for the program.  Please note, the presenting author must register for the pre-conference.

Submission deadline: February 1, 2025