Call for Abstracts

Call for Papers – Submit Your Contribution!

We invite you to submit abstracts for individual presentations, scoping presentations, symposia, workshops, or posters. We also explicitly encourage students to contribute.

Submission deadline: June 22, 2025
Length: max. 250 words per abstract.
Languages: Submissions are welcome in German or English

Research Presentations
Content: Research presentations focus on current findings or new theoretical perspectives.
Structure: The abstract should cover Introduction/Research Question, Methods, Results, and Conclusions/Discussion.
Duration: 20 minutes (including discussion), organized into 60- or 90-minute blocks with 3–4 presentations each.

Position Talk
Content: Position talks summarize the current state of research and outline future directions.
Structure: The abstract should cover Introduction/Research Question, Methods, Results, and Conclusions/Discussion.
Duration: 30 minutes (including discussion), organized into 60- or 90-minute blocks with 2–3 presentations each.

Poster Sessions
Content: Posters provide a graphical overview of a completed or planned study, or of a theoretical or empirical aspect of a project or research.
Structure: The abstract should cover Introduction/Research Question, Methods, Results, and Conclusions/Discussion.
Duration: Posters are available asynchronously throughout the conference.

Symposia
Content: Symposia comprise individual presentations of multiple related studies, planned studies, or theoretical contributions on a common theme.
Structure: Submit a “symposium overview” abstract introducing the general topic and outlining the individual presentations. Then submit one abstract for each contribution.
Duration: The session will last 90 minutes and include four to five presentations followed by a discussion. Please provide the name of the discussant.
Comment Field: Indicate in the comments which abstract is the symposium overview, and for each individual contribution, note its association with that overview.

Workshops
Content: Workshops can address two types of focus:

1. Teaching or deepening a specific positive-psychology intervention, method, program, or manual.
2. Teaching or deepening specific empirical or statistical methods and applications (e.g., using R in positive-psychology research; programming and evaluating online PP interventions).
   Structure: Provide a concise summary of planned content (topics, learning objectives, methods, participant prerequisites, and planned duration).
   Duration: 90 or 180 minutes (please specify in the abstract).