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Basic Information Name: Erin M. Buchanan, Ph.D. Email: ebuchanan at harrisburgu dot edu Address: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Analytics 326 Market St. Harrisburg, PA 17101 Education Ph.D., Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Texas Tech University (2008) Dissertation: What’s the difference: A study on semantic and associative priming and blocking Advisor: Dr. William S. Maki M.A., Experimental Psychology, Texas Tech University (2006) Thesis: Feature binding: Not Quite so Pre-Attentive Advisor: Dr. Kathryn Bleckley B. [Read More]

Honors and Awards Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Commendation (2020) NACADA Academic Advising Excellence Faculty Advisor Award (2016) Nominated for the Missouri State Master Online Recognition Award (2016) Curtis P. Lawrence Award for Excellence in Advising Recipient, Missouri State University (2016) Missouri State University Honors College Curtis P. Lawrence Teaching Award Recipient (2015) Missouri State University Honors College Research Award Recipient (2014) Nominated for the Missouri State University Foundation Award in Research (2014; Nominated for the Curtis P. [Read More]

Grants Psycholinguistics and memory, general cognitive: Partner Institution Faculty Mentor. Information control processes: an alternative and multidimensional approach to study their development. Horizon MSCA. (12/01/2025-12/01/2027). Principal Investigator. A multilinguistic database of semantic priming and tackling linguistic’s WEIRD problem. National Science Foundation (2024, submitted). $473,434. Principal Investigator. Measuring the Lexicon: Computational Approaches to Quantifying Similarity Among Cognitive Representations. Psychonomic Society Estes Grants. (2019, submitted). $19,000.00 Co-Principal Investigator. To see or not to see: Perceptual learning in organic chemistry. [Read More]

Research Overview Interests Psycholinguistics and memory: Semantic memory, associative memory, priming of memory types, normed databases, linguistic variables, memory maps, judgments of memory, language statistics, working memory, individual differences. Statistics: Alternatives to null hypothesis testing, effect sizes and confidence intervals, multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory, Bayesian inference statistics, hierarchical linear modeling, exploratory factor analysis, statistical reporting Check out my research statement. Experience The DOOM Lab (2019-Current) Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Analytics Principal Investigator The DOOM Lab (2010-2018) Missouri State University, Department of Psychology Principal Investigator Positive Psychology - Clinical Disaster Research Center (2009-Current) University of Mississippi, Department of Psychology Researcher Geospatial Sciences Collaborative Team (2009-2011) University of Mississippi, Depts of Psychology, Computer Science, Health Exercise Science, and Geospatial Sciences Researcher Psycholinguistics Lab (2008-2010) University of Mississippi, Department of Psychology Principal Investigator Memory and Judgments Laboratory for Dr. [Read More]

Presentations Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science Citation Link Buchanan, E. M. (2024, November). Priming is consistent but different across languages: The data release and results from the Semantic Priming Across Many Languages Project. Presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY.. Link Buchanan, E. M. (2023, October). What can we learn about two million priming values? An update to the Semantic Priming Across Many Languages Project (PSA007). Big Team Science Conference. [Read More]

Psycholinguistics and memory, general cognitive: Download Reference PPT Maxwell, N. P. & Buchanan, E. M. (2018, April). Single and Double Word-Pair Norms: Predictive Ability of Recall and Judgments. Poster presentation for the Annual Convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. PDF Maxwell, N. P., Kostic, B., & Buchanan, E.M. (2017, November). The Interaction of Semantic, Thematic, and Associative Overlap Strength in Predicting Recall. Poster presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada. [Read More]

Publications Statistical Packages & Tools Note: * indicate undergraduate authors, + graduate authors, $ both undergraduate and graduate Citation Link Buchanan, E. M. (2024). visualizemi: Visualization, Effect Size, and Replication of Measurement Invariance for Registered Reports. R package version 0.0.1. Link Buchanan, E. M. (2024). Visualizing Sensitivity. R package version 0.1.3. doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ViSe Link +Maxwell, N. P., & Buchanan, E. M. (2021). lrd: A Package for Processing Lexical Response Data. [Read More]

Publications Psycholinguistics and memory, general cognitive Download Reference PDF Duncan, J., Buchanan, E.M., Marshall, C.Z., & Oberdieck, K. (accepted). But words will never hurt me, Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, X, XX-XX. PDF Forbes, F.-J., & Buchanan, E. M. (accepted). “Textisms”: The Comfort of the Recipient, Psychology of Popular Media Culture, X, XX-XX. PDF Pavlacic, J., Culp, M., Harvey, S., Cathey, C., & Buchanan E.M. (2018). Using Undergraduate Learning Assistants to Aid in Course Redesign. [Read More]

Professional Memberships Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) - Associate Director, Web Admin Society for Computation in Psychology (SCIP) - Executive Director Society for the Improvement of the Psychological Sciences (SIPS) Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA) Psychonomic Society - Fellow Association for Psychological Science (APS) Graduate and Professional Student Association Professional Activities Journal Boards Behavior Research Methods, Editor, 2024-Current Frontiers, Associate Editor - 2021-2023 Behavior Research Methods, Associate Editor - 2020-2024 Meta-Psychology, Editorial Board & Action Editor - 2019-Current Journal of Scientific Psychology, Consulting Editor - 2009-Current Journal Reviewer Publons Profile - 2017-Current [Read More]

Here, you can learn about our goal of making statistical analysis approachable by creating a plethora of learning materials and interactive environment for learning/improving your skills. Shiny Apps: I have been working on building interactive applications through Shiny to visualize the data for specific projects and to increase statistical skills by creating easy ways to calculate numbers for non-programming researchers. I try to post about the applications as we put them online, but you can find them on our shiny-server GitHub repository or through the shiny tag on the blog. [Read More]