The Journal of Experimental Education invites submissions for a special issue focused on the processes of making academic decisions. JXE requests proposals for empirical papers, from varied disciplinary silos of psychology and/or education, that advance our understanding of how academic decisions unfold in students’ minds and/or how different academic contexts inform decision-making processes. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the unfolding motivational and cognitive processes that underlie decision-making, choice architecture or heuristics/biases as they affect academic decisions, sociocultural constraints or affordances that shape how individuals view academic decisions, novel methodological approaches to studying academic decision-making, how academic decisions are influenced by or measured in technologically-rich environments, and more.
To read the full call for abstracts (500 words; due April 15, 2026), and to learn more about the special issue, please visit this link.
Questions can be directed to the guest editors, Emily Q. Rosenzweig (eqr2000@tc.columbia.edu) or Patrick N. Beymer (beymerpk@ucmail.uc.edu).