Behavioral Science Conference Presentations

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Search presentation records across titles, author names, session titles, conference names, event names, and available abstracts. Leave the box blank to browse a conference-year with the filters.

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Methodology

How topics and trends are computed

Topics are assigned by matching a curated vocabulary against presentation titles. Trend charts aggregate those tags into per-year shares and a slope. This is a first pass, not yet a finished methodology.

How to read the numbers

Annual share (per-year values on the trend line, e.g. "2020: 1.2%")
For each conference in scope, share = topic presentations / all presentations in that year. The plotted value is the equal-weight mean across conferences. Not weighted by conference size. Not a count.
Current share (e.g. "7.6%")
The mean of the last two annual shares. If 2024 = 5.1% and 2025 = 10.1%, current = 7.6%. Averaging two years reduces sensitivity to one noisy year.
Slope (e.g. "+1.25 pp/yr")
Estimated annual change in percentage points. Computed per conference as the Theil-Sen slope (the median of the slopes between every pair of observed years), then averaged unweighted across the conferences in scope. Using a median reduces the influence of any single outlier year, so the slope can differ from a naive (end − start) / span calculation when recent years are unusual. Theil-Sen also handles conferences that are missing years without special treatment. The slope summarizes a linear trend. For topics that rise and then fall, a flat slope can hide a reversal. Check the year series on the chart.

What gets tagged

A presentation gets a topic tag only when the topic's literal alias appears in its title. Matches from abstracts, keywords, and session titles are not used to calculate trends. Non-title coverage is uneven across conferences and years, so allowing topic identification based on abstracts or keywords would complicate trend analyses.

Coverage and scope

Trend views require a selection of a single conference or a conference family. An "all conferences" view is disabled because the set of contributing conferences changes year to year, so that view would mix real trends with changes in conference composition.

About

About this tool

The Behavioral Science Conference Presentations Database is a public search tool for behavioral science conference presentations built and maintained by Joe Siev (UVA Darden; University of Alabama, Culverhouse starting in July 2026).

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What this is

A searchable archive spanning more than a decade of conferences in Marketing / Consumer Behavior, Social / Personality Psychology, Judgment / Decision Making, and Management / Organizations. Publicly available and free to use. Intended to support research discovery, topic-trend analysis, conference comparison, and reviewer/collaborator identification. This is not (yet) a complete archive — coverage varies across conferences and years. See for the current state. The analytical methodology is also tentative — see the panel in Explore topic trends mode. For app features, see .

Relation to existing resources

Conference presentations are not the same as formally published proceedings papers. The published record is covered elsewhere — by scholarly indexes (Web of Science CPCI, Scopus, OpenAlex, Crossref, Dimensions, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar) and by society proceedings archives where they exist (ACR's Advances in Consumer Research, the Academy of Management Proceedings, AMA's Educators' Proceedings, AMS's Developments in Marketing Science, and IACM's online proceedings). But some conferences addressed here (e.g., SPSP, SJDM, EASP) publish no formal proceedings, and those that do may not include full programs, leaving the conference record itself scattered and incomplete. This database complements those resources rather than overlapping with them record-for-record.

Updates

The live tool is updated continuously as new conferences and corrections come in. For a citable snapshot, use the Zenodo DOI (linked below) — a new version is issued when coverage or methodology changes materially.

How to cite

Siev, J. J. (2026). Behavioral Science Conference Presentations Database. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19891722

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