The 1st International Online Conference on Behavioral Sciences
The 1st International Online Conference on Behavioral Sciences
Part of the International Online Conference on Behavioral Sciences series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
2 December 2025
29 January 2026
27 March 2026
Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognition, Neuropsychology, Psychiatry, Intervention and Health Promotion, Organizational Behavior
The Abstract Submission Deadline is 2 December 2025.
Accepted abstracts are eligible for publication in a Special Issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN: 2076-328X, Impact Factor 2.5), with a 20% discount on the publication fee.
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For any inquiries, please contact us at iocbs2026@mdpi.com.
Welcome from the Chair
S2. Cognition;
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Abstract Guidelines: Abstracts should be concise (200–300 words) and clearly state the research question, methodology, and key findings.
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Submission Expectations: Both empirical research and review papers are welcome. Presenters should specify whether their work includes data-driven findings or is a theoretical/conceptual review.
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Submission Criteria: All abstracts must be submitted in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling. Submissions must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journal, or they may be rejected. Each abstract should include the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, and References. The contents of the abstract must align with the selected session.
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Prizes and awards: Those with accepted contributions will be eligible to give oral presentations or present a poster online, with CHF 800 awarded for the best presentation and best poster.
Prof. Dr. Jerrell Cassady
Department of Educational Psychology, Ball State University, Muncie, USA
Event Chairs
Jerrell Cassady is Professor of Psychology and has been at Ball State since 1999. His areas of expertise include test anxiety, human learning, teacher education, and research design. He frequently works with national organizations (e.g., Smithsonian Institution, National Parks Foundation) and local school and community groups (e.g., Muncie Community Schools, Hancock County Community Foundation) to design and implement evaluation studies documenting successful educational programming in practice.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. John Parkinson
Wales Centre for Behaviour Change, Department of Psychology, Bangor University, UK
Dr. Andrew Soundy
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK
Prof. Dr. Michele Roccella
Department of Psychology, Educational Science and Human Movement, University of Palermo, Italy
Prof. Dr. Bin Hu
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Prof. Dr. Valentina Echeverria Moran
Laboratorio de Neurobiología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago , Chile
Prof. Dr. Johanna Nilsson
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, United States
Prof. Dr. Sukanlaya Sawang
Faculty of Business and Law, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Prof. Dr. William Bart
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Prof. Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett
Department of Educational Psychology, Mary Frances Early College of Education, University of Georgia, USA
Event Committee
Department of Psychology, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
personality trait and disorder; emotion; neurophysiology; neuroimaging
School of Languages and Education, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
School of Science and Technology, Örebro University, Sweden
Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Department of Psychology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada
School of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Universidade Ceuma (UNICEUMA), Sao Luis, Brazil
School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Department of Education, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Department of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Musicology Research Group, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium,
Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies, IPEM, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies, Western University, Canada
Department of Rural Studies, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, USA
Department of Psychology, Concordia University of Edmonton, Edmonton, Canada
Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, USA
Queens College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Queens, USA
Centre for Professional Communication, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Foggia, Italy
Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Lisbon School of Nursing,Lisbon, Portugal
Nursing; Health Management; Quality of Life; Well-being; Validation Studies; Mental Health Nursing; Addictive Behaviours; Substance Use; Mental Health Literacy; Stigma.Nursing; Health Management; Quality of Life; Well-being; Validation Studies; Mental Hea
Behavior and Brain Lab IULM– Neuromarketing Research Center, IULM University, Milan, Italy
electroencephalography (eeg); skin conductance (sc, scr, scl); hearthrate (hr); affective computing; biomedical signal processing; machine learning
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey,
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
healthcare inforamtics; Medical Informatics
chronic pain; personality; fibromyalgia syndrome; emotional disorders; cognitive impairments; transcranial doppler functional ultrasonography; transcranial direct current stimulation; cerebral autoregulation; cardiovascular variability; hypotension
Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China
perinatal depression; maternal mental health; infant mental health; attachment; toxic stress; parent–child interventions; community-based nursing interventions
work motivation; leadership; cross-cultural studies; creativity; innovation; entrepreneurship
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
inattentional blindness
perceived quality of life; leisure and recreation administration; social psychological aspects of leisure service consumer
stochastic modeling; data analysis; machine learning; data mining
divergent thinking; creative process
Biomedical Department, “Francisc I. Rainer” Institute of Anthropology, Romanian Academy, Romanian Academy House, Bucharest, Romania
psychosocial factors
College of International Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Social Sciences; covid; psychology; pandemic
School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau SAR, China
human resource manageemnt; Organizational behavior; public administration; Policy Analysis
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
stress management; quality of life; Facilities Management; outdoor environment
School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
leadership; HRM; organisational behaviour
clinical psychology and neuroscience; cognitive psychology; biopsychology; neuropsychology
the role of neural plasticity in animal behavior and mental disorders; the neurophysiological bases of synaptic transmission and plasticity; the neural correlates of cognitive functioning in health and disease
Department of Normal Physiology, St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Clinical Neurophysiology; brain mapping; EEG; evoked potentials; artificial intelligence; cognitive psychology; neurorehabilitation
digital health; mental health and wellbeing; virtual care
Department of Physical Therapy, Laboratory of Non-Invasive Neuromodulation—LANN, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
rehabilitation; physical-functional performance
Neural Network; sports health; Sensor Technology; sports; physical activity; biomechanics; Neuroscience and Psychology
Department of Education, Area of Physical Education and Sports, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
physical education; sports; injury; Education; motor skills; sports games; physical activities; natural environment; primary education; Early Childhood Education; Didactics
Registration
The registration for IOCBS 2026 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 27 March 2026.
Instructions for Authors
IOCBS 2026 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 31 January 2026.
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
Poster Presentation
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
- You can use our free template to create your poster.
The poster template can be downloaded HERE. We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunity
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue (to be updated), published in Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X, Impact Factor 2.5), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IOCBS2026 in Proceedings (ISSN: 2504 - 3900) after quality check. If you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Title
Full author names
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Please click HERE to submit your proceeding paper to the Proceedings.
Proceedings Template.docx
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 4 awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 4
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be four winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Coco Hou
Email: iocbs2026@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
