Call for Papers: BDRM 2026 at Cornell in New York City

[David]

The Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business will be hosting the 40th anniversary of the Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM) Conference at our Cornell Tech campus in New York City, June 15-17, 2026. We are now accepting paper and session submissions!

 

BDRM is the leading conference for behavioral research with business and organizational implications, bringing together the best of behavioral research within, but not limited to, the areas of decision-making, consumer behavior, experimental and behavioral economics, development economics, decision analysis, behavioral finance, organizational behavior, negotiation, behavioral strategy, behavioral operations research, behavioral accounting, and medical and legal decision-making. The first BDRM conference was held in June 1986 at Cornell’s Ithaca campus and we are delighted to bring it back to Cornell for this anniversary year.

 

Paper submissions for BDRM 2026 are due February 15, 2026, by 12am EST.

The BDRM main conference will take place on Monday, June 15 through the morning of Wednesday June 17. On the afternoon of Wednesday, June 17, two discipline-specific mini-conferences are being organized by Cornell faculty. Submissions can be considered for the main conference, a mini-conference, or both. Mini-conference topics, and the associated faculty organizers, are as follows:

• Mini-conference #1: Better Outcomes for Organizations and Society. Roundtable and symposium submissions are encouraged from scholars who use behavioral decision research to improve outcomes in organizations, markets, and society. Please note additional submission guidance below. Organizer: Ovul Sezer
• Mini-conference #2: Behavioral Finance and Economics. Papers under the general topic of behavioral finance and behavioral economics are welcome. Especially encouraged are papers related to cognitive economics and cognitive finance, and papers on behavioral finance and AI. Organizers: Lawrence Jin and Xing Huang

 

For the main conference, we encourage the submission of either sessions or individual papers. Sessions should contain three to four papers organized around a theme and should be led by a session chair who is, ideally, not presenting one of the papers in the session. Sessions will be partially evaluated on curation. Individual papers can be submitted as 20-minute full length presentations and/or as shorter 5-minute flash talks.

 

Submission information and instructions for the main conference and the mini-conferences are available at:

https://bedr.cornell.edu/paper-submission-information/

 

Sincerely,

The 2026 BDRM Organizing Committee: Suzanne Shu (chair), Andrew Davis, Geoffrey Fisher, Emily Garbinsky, Xing Huang, David Huffman, Lawrence Jin, Collin Raymond, Kristi Rennekamp, Heather Schofield, Ovul Sezer, Brian White