Submissions

Symposium submissions should include three (3) talks and one (1) discussant or four (4) talks with participants from different lab groups and/or universities.

The chair or co-chair of the proposed symposium must be a CDS member in good standing at the time of submission. If you are unsure of your membership status, please contact us.

To become a member, please click HERE

IMPORTANT – Each person may be first author (which is also the presenter role) for no more than one talk (including the role of discussant) or poster at CDS 2024. There is no limit on the number of non-presenting (i.e., co-author) roles one can have at the conference.

• Include all presenters exactly as you wish them to appear on published material and in the correct order.  If the submission is successful, a second submission for each individual presentation with relevant authors will be required.
  
• Prepare a symposium title (max 255 character limit).  Please use sentence case for the title (capitalize the first letter of the title and lower case for all other letters unless required)
• Prepare a diversity statement (max 900 character limit -approximately 150 words) for use in the review process.  This statement should indicate how the submission advances diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging.
• Include an abstract (max 3500 characters – approximately 500 words) for each speaker in the symposium.  Please note, if successful, this information will be added again with the relevant contributing authors. An abstract does not need to be included for the discussant.
• Prepare the overall symposium abstract (max 900 character limit – approximately 100 words).  This will be published in the digital program book and App if successful.
• Submit the abstract via CDS’s online abstract management system.  Please note, when submitting the abstract cut and paste it from a text editor (i.e. notepad, wordpad) to ensure it does not include underlying formatting that may cause errors. Do not copy/paste from a Word document as additional hidden formatting could be inserted into the submission.
• Ensure the submission has been approved by all authors

By submitting an abstract, you agree to present at the CDS Meeting should your abstract be selected for the program. Please note that all presenters must be registered for CDS at the time of the meeting.

Please note the deadline is October 10, 2023 at 23:59 in your time zone.  We expect to notify people of final decisions at the end of November.

Please note your submitted work should not have been presented at any other developmental psychology conferences including SRCD or BCCCD .

Please note your submitted work should not have been presented at any other developmental psychology conference including SRCD and BCCCD.

At least one of the authors on an oral paper submission must be a CDS member in good standing at the time of submission. If you are unsure of your membership status, please contact us.  The presenting (and first) author must be a member at the time of presentation.

To become a member, please click HERE

IMPORTANT – Each person may be first author (which is also the presenter role) for no more than one talk or poster at CDS 2024. There is no limit on the number of non-presenting (i.e., co-author) roles one can have at the conference.

• Include all authors (primary and secondary) exactly as you wish them to appear on published material and in the correct order
• Prepare an abstract title (max 255 character limit).  Please use sentence case for the title (capitalize the first letter of the title and lower case for all other letters unless required) and do not include a period (.) at the end of the title
• Prepare the abstract (max 3500 character limit – approximately 500 words)
• Prepare a diversity statement (max 900 character limit – approximately 150 words) for use in the review process.  This statement should indicate how the submission advances diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging.
• Submit the abstract via CDS’s online abstract management system. Please note, when submitting the abstract cut and paste it from a text editor (i.e. notepad, wordpad) to ensure it does not include underlying formatting that may cause errors. Do not copy/paste from a Word document as additional hidden formatting could be inserted into the submission.
• Ensure the submission has been approved by all authors

By submitting an abstract, you agree to present at the CDS Meeting should your abstract be selected for the program.  Please note all presenters must be registered to attend the CDS meeting in advance of their presentation.

Should the submission not be accepted for an oral presentation, it will be considered for a poster presentation.  Submitters will receive confirmation of presentation type when final decisions are sent.

Please note the deadline is October 10 at 23:59 in your time zone.  We expect to notify people of final decisions at the end of November.

Chair – Jessica Church-Lang, University of Texas at Austin

Reviewers
Chen Cheng, Hong Kong
John Franchak, UC Riverside
Amanda Tarullo, Boston U
Charisse Pickron, U Minn
Amy Needham, Vanderbilt
Simona Ghetti, UC Davis

Chair: Stella Christie, Tsinghua University

Chair: Umay Suanda, University of Connecticut

Chair: Deb Kelemen, Boston University

Reviewers
Deon Benton, Vanderbilt University
Daphna Buchsbaum, Brown University
Judith Danovitch, University of Louisville
Melissa Kibbe, Boston University
Kelsey Lucca, Arizona State University
Lori Markson, Washington University, St Louis
Karl Rosengren, University of Rochester
Adena Schachner, University of California, San Diego
Natalia Vélez, Princeton University
Yue Yu, National Institute for Education, Singapore 

Chairs: Andrew Shtulman, Occidental College & Amrisha Vaish, University of Virginia

Reviewers
Jennifer Clegg, Texas State University
Audun Dahl, Cornell University
Jonathan Lane, Vanderbilt University
Ayse Payir, Boston University
Rebekah Richert, UC Riverside
Joshua Rottman, Franklin & Marshall College
Jacqueline Woolley, University of Texas Austin
Susanne Hardecker, University of Leipzig
Amanda Burkholder, Furman University
Richard Ahl, Boston College
Peter Blake, Boston University
Sebastian Grueneisen, University of Leipzig
Xin (Alice) Zhao, East China Normal University
Fan Yang, University of Chicago
Alessandra Geraci, University for Foreigners “Dante Alighieri” of Reggio Calabria

Chairs: Lucas Butler, University of Maryland & Kristin Shutts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Reviewers
Tamar Kushnir
Dave Sobel
Melissa Koenig
Julia Leonard
Nadia Chernyak
Marjorie Rhodes
Marco Schmidt
Francys Subiaul
Isobel Heck
Rosie Aboody
Samuel Ronfard
Megan Norris
Pearl Han Li
Rebecca Peretz-lange
Katharine Scott
Mika Asaba
Lindsey Powell
Ashley Jordan
Ryan Lei
Meltem Yucel
Jennifer Clegg
Amanda Haber 

Chair: Amber Williams, California Polytechnic State University

Reviewers
Linda Lee, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Diana Acosta, University of California, Santa Cruz
Elsa Lucia Escalante Barrios, Universidad del Norte
Itzel Aceves-Azuara, California State University, Sacramento
Nydia Prishker, St. Thomas Aquinas College
Esinam Ami Avornyo, University of Cape Coast
Zhenlan Wang, Yale
Mike Rizzo, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Kathleen Corriveau, Boston University
Dorsa Amir, University of California, Berkeley
Yian Xu, Kennesaw State University
Aline Hitti, University of San Francisco
Megan Norris, Purdue University
Sirada Rochanavibhata, Northwestern University 

Chair: Jamie Jirout, University of Virginia

Reviewers
Laura Schulz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dana Miller-Cotto, Kent State University
Nora Newcombe, Temple University
Catherine Haden, Loyola University Chicago
Anna Shusterman, Wesleyan University
Dave Sobel, Brown University
Natalie Evans, University of Virginia
Susan Benear, New York University
Ian Chandler-Campbell, University of Texas at Dallas
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University
Hilary E. Miller-Goldwater, Emory University
Andrew Young, Northeaster Illinois University
Joseph Colantonio, Harvard University