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SANS 2025

April 23-26, 2025
Chicago, USA

Abstract Submission Now Open!

The Social and Affective Neuroscience Society invites submission of research abstracts for its 2025 Annual Conference to be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA from April 23-26, 2025. All submissions will be evaluated by the Scientific Program Committee.

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Key Dates

Membership:
August 1, 2024 – 2024-2025 Membership Open
July 31, 2025 – 2024-2025 Membership Close

Abstracts:
September 16, 2024 – Abstracts and Travel Awards Open – Submit Now!
November 17, 2024 – Abstracts and Travel Awards Close
January 29, 2025 – Notifications Sent
February 15, 2025 – Last Day to Confirm Participation

Registration:
November 7, 2024 – Registration Opens
March 11, 2025 – Early Bird Registration Deadline
April 5, 2025 – Regular Registration Deadline

Room Booking:
March 15, 2025 – Hotel booking cut-off date

Conference:
April 23, 2025 – Conference Begins
April 26, 2026 – Conference Ends

Program Co-Chairs

Elisa Baek

Elisa Baek

University of Southern California

Elisa Baek: Elisa Baek, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Social Connection Lab at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 and completed her postdoctoral training at UCLA. Elisa draws from methods and approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, network science, and communication to study what helps people feel socially connected to one another. Some of the ongoing work in her lab explores the role of information sharing in social connection, understanding the neuropsychological factors that characterize individual differences in subjective and objective social connection, and the factors that underlie successful persuasion.
João Guassi Moreira

João Guassi Moreira

University of Wisconsin

João Guassi Moreira: João Guassi Moreira is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he directs the Computational Developmental Neuroscience Lab. He completed his Ph.D. and a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA between 2016 and 2024. João uses functional magnetic resonance imaging in conjunction with computational methods to study the neurodevelopment of social and affective phenomena during the second and third decades of life, mostly in the context of decision-making and emotion regulation. Ongoing work in his lab explores the impact of emotion regulation on adolescent risk-taking behavior, how mental representations of specific known others influence social decision behavior, and how emotion regulation skills are successfully acquired and deployed to affect well-being.

Program Committee Members

Candace M. Raio, (2026 Co-Chair), New York University
Chujun Lin, University of California, San Diego
Josiah Leong, University of Arkansas
Justin Minue Kim, (2026 Co-Chair) Sungkyunkwan University

Awards

Please visit our Awards page to learn about the different SANS conference awards you can apply for, as a member

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A recap of the 2024 SANS Conference in Toronto

If you missed the April conference or want to relive it, here is a report on  SANS 2024 in Toronto, Canada.  Thank you, Emma Moughan, Research Assistant in Worcester Polytechnic Institute who wrote this meeting report as part of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Science Writers Fellowship aimed to extend the conversation beyond the meeting with the hopes of sparking new ideas and collaborations.

Thank you to our Gold Level Sponsor the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for supporting this effort.