Erin M. Buchanan

Campus: Springfield

Biography

Dr. Erin Buchanan is associate professor of psychology. She teaches a variety of statistics courses, including: baby stats (undergraduate basics), advanced stats (undergraduate/graduate mix of multivariate methods), graduate stats (graduate basics), structural equation modeling, alternative designs, non-parametrics and more. She also teaches first-year seminar and Memory and Cognition and Psychology and Language. In addition, Buchanan runs comprehensive exams and generally serves as a mentor for students who are interested in Ph.D. tracks.

She founded the Deciphering Outrageous Observations and Modeling (DOOM) lab when she joined MSU. It has included almost 10 graduate students and three times as many undergraduate students. Her research mission in that capacity has been in two primary domains: applied statistics and computational linguistics.

Details

Education

  • Ph.D. in Experimental Cognitive Psychology, 2008, Texas Tech University
  • M.A. in Experimental Psychology, 2006, Texas Tech University
  • B.S. in Psychology, 2004, Texas A&M University

Teaching

Undergraduate:

  • Statistics
  • Multivariate Statistical Methods
  • Psychology and Language
  • Memory and Cognition

Graduate:

  • Statistics
  • Multivariate Statistical Methods
  • Structural Equation Modeling

Professional experience

  • Association for Psychological Science
  • Graduate and Professional Student Association
  • Psychonomic Society
  • Southwestern Psychological Association

Research and professional interests

  • Language meaning and use - how large lexical databases explain our member networks and the relationship of concepts to each other.
  • Judgments of memory - understanding how we judge information from memory, improving our judgments of memory
  • Statistics - the utilization of multivariate statistics in applied research, power, effect size, replication and structural equation modeling

Awards and honors

  • Academic Advising Excellence Faculty Advisor Award, National Academic Advising Association, 2016
  • Curtis P. Lawrence Award for Excellence in Advising, Missouri State University, 2016
  • Curtis P. Lawrence Teaching Award, Honor's College, Missouri State University, 2015
  • Research Award, Honor's College, Missouri State University, 2014
  • Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award, Teaching Academy, 2007

Additional resources

Areas of Expertise

Computers and technology Mathematics Psychology