Society for the Study of Motivation

Welcome to the Society for the Study of Motivation!

The Society for the Study of Motivation is an international, interdisciplinary organization of researchers who study motivation. Its mission is to encourage inquiry into all aspects of motivation from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, and to facilitate the dissemination of findings to a broad scientific audience.

The Society for the Study of Motivation provides a forum for the exchange of scientific information, foster discussion of new ideas and findings on motivation among researchers, and encourage exchange and collaboration in research. It will do this through a list serve, online information exchange, annual conferences, and a journal dedicated exclusively to motivation research.

Open letter to motivational researchers by SSM members Arie Kruglanski, Tory Higgins, Richard Sorrentino, Rex Wright, Roy Baumeister, and Andrew Elliot.

Council of the Society of the Study of Motivation:
Richard Sorrentino (President, University of Western Ontario), Rex A. Wright (President-Elect, University of Alabama, Birmingham), Larry C. Bernard (Past-President, Loyola Marymount University), Stephen Crites (Treasurer, University of Texas at El Paso), Michael Richter (Secretary-Archivist, University of Geneva), William Graziano (Purdue University), Hugo M. Kehr (Technical University Munich), Arne Roets (Ghent University), Kaspar Schattke (Concordia University), Julia Schüler (University of Bern), Luke Smillie (University of Melbourne)

SSM Award Committee:
Larry C. Bernard (co-chair, Loyola Marymount University), Arne Roets (co-chair, Ghent University), Kerstin Brinkmann (University of Geneva), Emanuela Chemolli (Concordia University), Sara Etchison (McGill University), Marieke Roskes (University of Amsterdam), Geneviève Taylor (McGill University)

SSM Conference Program Committee:
Stephen Crites (co-chair, University of Texas at El Paso), Abigail Scholer (co-chair, University of Waterloo), Emily Balcetis (New York University), Veronika Brandstaetter-Morawietz (University of Zurich), Andy Elliot (University of Rochester), Ayelet Fishbach (University of Chicago), Arne Roets (Ghent University), Luke Smillie (University of Melbourne)

SSM Publication Committee:
Arie W. Kruglanski (co-chair, University of Maryland), Rex A. Wright (co-chair, University of Alabama, Birmingham), Ayelet Fishbach (University of Chicago), Michele J. Gelfand (University of Maryland), Tory E. Higgins (Columbia University)

SSM Elections Committee 2012:
Larry C. Bernard (chair, Loyola Marymount University), Kerstin Brinkmann (University of Geneva), Geneviève Taylor (McGill University)