Dear colleagues,
We warmly invite you to the 19th International Conference on Motivation and Emotions, held under the theme “Affective Dynamics in Uncertain Times: Understanding Motivation and Emotions.”
When? June 22–24
Where? Lisbon, Portugal
What’s next?
- Proposal submissions: September 30 – December 31
- Notification of acceptance: February 28
- Deadline for authors’ registration: March 20
- Deadline for early bird participant registration: March 31
We invite the submission of individual contributions (papers or posters) and symposia. Both empirical and theoretical proposals are welcome.
Checklist for Submission
Format: Papers, posters, or symposia.
• For symposia, please mind the three-country rule: presenting authors, a chair, and a discussant must be from at least three different countries.
• All active participants need to have an EARLI account.
Platform: EARLI submission system – https://earli-eapril.org/
• Presenting authors must have a valid EARLI account to submit a contribution.
• Co-authors do not need an EARLI account (their names and contact details can be entered manually).
Language: English
Title: Up to 100 characters (including spaces)
Abstract: 100 – 250 words
Extended summary: 500 – 1000 words (including references)
Symposia: Up to 250 words for the symposium description in addition to the individual contributions (abstract and extended summary).
The symposium is submitted by the organizer as a single submission.
Keywords: Use the drop-down menu in the submission system to find the appropriate keywords for your submission.
Optional: Up to three images or tables may be uploaded with your submission.
To maximize participation, the number of active contributions per researcher is limited.
A maximum of two submissions are accepted as presenting author. In addition, it is possible to organize up to two symposia, serve once as a symposium chair, and once as a discussant. Researchers are also invited to chair a conference session (excluding symposia) by registering for this role in the submission system. There is no restriction on contributions as a non-presenting co-author.
To ensure a fair review process, all submissions should be completely anonymous, excluding your name in any part of the uploaded documents. Submissions will be reviewed blindly by at least two experts in the relevant field. The extended summary will be reviewed on the following elements:
- Relevance for the conference theme
- Clarity of objectives and research questions
- Theoretical framework, conceptual rationale, or pragmatic grounding
- Research methods and design (empirical contributions) or embeddedness in the relevant literature (theoretical contributions)
- (Preliminary) Results and conclusions
- Significance for theory, policy, and practice (empirical contributions) or theoretical debate (theoretical contributions)
For symposia, both the quality of the individual contributions and the collective coherence of the papers will be assessed.
Questions? Contact the organizing team at 👉 icm2026@ispa.pt