EPA 2025
EPA President Dr. Patricia Brooks’ Welcome
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association
Welcome to the 96th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in New York City! The 2025 conference has the theme “Making positive changes in people's lives and in the world” and brings forth the myriad ways that psychology students, faculty, and professionals are using research, teaching, and service to strengthen communities and promote well-being.
This year’s conference, one of our largest ever, features over 1000 papers, posters, keynotes, symposia, and events! Keynote speakers include Kristen Gillespie-Lynch (College of Staten Island, CUNY) who will speak about the burgeoning neurodiversity movement and Sarit Golub (Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center) who will discuss how to leverage psychology research for impact. Matthew Goldberg (Yale University) will offer ideas on how psychological science can help to address climate change, Natalie Tronson (University of Michigan) will explain how the neuroimmune system alters memory functions, and Joseph Ferrari (DePaul University) will teach us about the causes and consequences of procrastination.
Lene Jensen (Clark University) will deliver the Harry Kirk Woolf lecture on the teaching of psychology, sharing insights on what a cultural-developmental approach teaches us about diversity and individuality in psychological development. In the Virginia Staudt Sexton keynote, Deborah Tolman (Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center) will share innovative work on adolescent girls’ sexuality and relationships. In the Presidential keynote, I will describe U.S. and Canadian projects aimed at strengthening students’ media literacy skills to equip them with critical strategies for evaluating information. Other scheduled events include the Presidential symposium on social-cultural and communicative foundations of language development, featuring Catherine Tamis-LeMonda (New York University), Ruthe Foushee (The New School for Social Research), Morten Christiansen (Cornell University), and Eric Thiessen (Carnegie Mellon University). Other exciting panels and symposia focus on the United Nations at 80 (organized by Harold Takooshian, Fordham University), transnational perspectives on psychological constructs (organized by Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center), and understanding complex trauma (organized by Cheryl Paradis, Marymount Manhattan College), as examples.
This year’s EPA program includes four poster sessions dedicated to undergraduate research, with co-sponsorship from the Psi Chi International Honors Society. We will be announcing the student recipients of the Stanley Weiss Award in Experimental Psychology and Diversity Travel Awards. Congratulations to all the undergraduate and graduate student presenters on the high quality of their submissions!
The world today can feel chaotic and overwhelming at times. Psychology offers an incredible set of resources and frameworks to foster agency, promote intergroup alliances, and improve health and mental health outcomes for diverse constituencies. I am excited to learn more about the valuable work of psychology students and faculty at this year’s meeting and look forward to seeing you there! Follow us on LinkedIn where you can post your photos and impressions!
JOIN US in 2025
As Dr. Brooks' welcome makes clear, the 2025 meeting will continue EPA's tradition of excellence in the form of faculty and student research papers, posters and symposia plus a series of keynote addresses by leaders in the field that will highlight exciting, new findings from diverse areas of psychology. If you're not already a member of EPA, you can join using the tab above and attend the entire meeting without additional registration fees. And if you are a member, but haven't renewed for the current year, you can do that on the website as well.
For those who need accommodations in New York, you may book reservations at the Marriott Marquis using the following link. The EPA negotiated rate at the hotel is $305 (single or double, plus tax). Since the EPA block of rooms is limited, we recommend booking as early as possible in order to guarantee a room at the EPA rate.
https://book.passkey.com/go/EPA2025
Additional information about the 2025 meeting can be found under the Annual Meeting tab above or under those to the right.
The following links will take you to a draft of the Program and the daily schedule (time and place) of events (calendar):
EPA Program 2025
