Big Team Science Lessons Learned

 Posted on June 11, 2026  |  5 minutes  |  Erin M. Buchanan

Big Team Science Is More Than Bigger Samples: Lessons from Cognitive Science Psychological science has spent the last decade grappling with questions of credibility, reproducibility, and generalizability. One of the most important responses to these challenges has been the rise of Big Team Science (BTS)—large-scale collaborative projects that bring together researchers across institutions, countries, languages, and disciplines. A new paper published in Collabra: Psychology, The Advantage of Big Team Science: Lessons Learned from Cognitive Science, reflects on what we’ve learned from organizing and participating in these massive collaborations and offers practical guidance for future projects. [Read More]
publication  big teams 

The Year of the Thesis

 Posted on December 5, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  Erin M. Buchanan

The Year of the Thesis! Just wanted to highlight several publications from this year, which were mostly theses from some fabulous young researchers: Scofield, J.E., Kostic, B., & Buchanan, E.M. (2019). How the presence of others affects desirability judgments in heterosexual and homosexual participants. Archives of Sexual Behavior, X, XX–XX. doi: 10.1007/s10508-019-01516-w Maxwell, N.P. & Buchanan, E.M. (2019). Investigating the interaction of direct and indirect relation on memory judgments and retrieval. [Read More]
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New Publications

 Posted on October 6, 2019  |  3 minutes  |  Erin Buchanan

Just updated my CV - here’s a few new publications and conferences! The weird thing about the automatic CV updater I wrote is that you can’t really predict what order the same year publications are going to be in - not that it matters in general, but it’s an interesting side effect. Also, super proud - both of these are student theses turned papers: Maxwell, N.P. & Buchanan, E.M. (2019).Investigating the interaction of direct and in-direct relation on memory judgments and retrieval. [Read More]
publication  psycholinguistics  clinical  update  vita 

New Publications and Updated CV

 Posted on June 1, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  Erin M. Buchanan

Hi guys! I just wanted to post that I’ve updated the website to be current with some new publications I wanted to highlight: First up is two papers on psycholinguistics that were undergraduate student projects: 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. [Read More]
publication  update  statistics 

Current Publications with Papaja

 Posted on May 21, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  Erin M. Buchanan

Heyo! Frederik, the author of papaja, requested that we update him with papers written with his package. I was like, oh man, like the whole lab?! So, I decided that I could probably make it easy by making a table here. Obviously, this table is current at the moment, as I hope many of the ones under review will get accepted, and I have several others that we will start writing soon. [Read More]
papaja  publication  research  open science 

New Publication: Texting

 Posted on April 12, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  Erin M. Buchanan

One more announcement! We just had a new publication accepted: “Textisms”: The Comfort of the Recipient: This paper was an undergraduate honors thesis that Flora-Jean and I finally got accepted! She did a great job making sure this paper was completed and published. You can check out the materials here: https://osf.io/8kt52/ You can view the pre-print: https://osf.io/ptf7c/ We should have the real print up soon! Just waiting on the journal now. [Read More]
publication  students  open science  linguistics  psycholinguistics  texting 

New Publications

 Posted on March 1, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Erin Buchanan

Just wanted to do a quick post to say that the Nature Human Behavior response paper, Justify Your Alpha is now online at NHB’s website: Springer - it is free to view but not download. You can download the PDF version on OSF. We’ve submitted a couple new papers as well - updated those on my research publications page. I also have a couple more to get done - hoping to feature some of the cool coding work I’ve done this week after taking a breather from a seriously packed week. [Read More]
publication  vita  research 

New Publication - Detect Low Quality Data

 Posted on February 25, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  Erin Buchanan

My coauthor John Scofield and I just had a publication accepted at Behavior Research Methods - you can check out the publication preprint at OSF. We thew together a website for the paper that summarizes everything we found, as well as puts all the materials together in one place - check it out. We create a really nice R function to help you detect low quality data, which you can find on GitHub, and I even made a video that explains all the parts to the function at YouTube. [Read More]
rstudio  shiny  open science  publication  reproducibility  vita 

Citations in R Markdown + Papaja

 Posted on February 23, 2018  |  6 minutes  |  Erin Buchanan

Heyo! I wanted to write a post about some of the quirky things I’ve found with writing manuscripts in R Markdown, as well as provide a solution to a problem that someone else might be having. Update: The csl file I describe below is a special formatted one, which was shared with me. You can download it from GitHub to try the suggestions below. Update 2: Turns out, potentially, the suggestions from the manual are not working correctly, as Frederik has checked it out and opened an issue on github. [Read More]
publication  research  papaja  open science  reproducibility  latex  bibliography 

A Shiny App to Compare Stats

 Posted on February 18, 2018  |  5 minutes  |  Erin Buchanan

For a recent publication comparing null hypothesis testing p-values to Bayes Factors and Observation Oriented Modeling, we created a Shiny app to graph all of our complex plots. I particularly pleased with the plotly 3D graph - as I usually think that 3D graphs are impossible to read. This plot shows what we found in our study (albeit I would recommend viewing the 2D plots more): Bayes Factors and p-values follow a power function, as we expected. [Read More]
shiny  research  publication