Charlotte Tanis

I am a PhD candidate with Dora Matzke and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers at the Psychological Methods Unit of the University of Amsterdam.

My research centers around formal mathematical models for cognitive control and decision making. Specifically, I focus on race models to measure inhibition, and pedestrian models to describe and estimate people flows. I aim to work on topics and projects that have a direct societal link. Therefore, in addition to my PhD topic, I co-founded Science versus Corona in March 2020, and helped develop a framework using contact networks to determine the effectiveness of behavioural interventions on physical distancing and applied this framework in several large-scale experiments.

My CV

Publications by Charlotte Tanis

Tanis, C.C., Heathcote, A., Zrubka, M., & Matzke, D. (2022). A hybrid approach to dynamic cognitive psychometrics. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Heathcote, A., Garton, R., Hinder, M.R., Reynolds, A., Tanis, C., & Matzke, D. (2022). Slower processing dominates executive-function deficits in cognitive aging. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Tanis, C. C., Nauta, F. H., Boersma, M. J., Van der Steenhoven, M. V., Borsboom, D., & Blanken, T. F. (2022). Practical behavioural solutions to COVID-19: Changing the role of behavioural science in crises. PloS one, 17(10), e0272994. [Dataset]
Borsboom, D., Blanken, T. F., Dablander, F., Tanis, C. C., Van Harreveld, F., & Van Mieghem, P. (2022). The lighting of the BECONs: A behavioral data science approach to tracking interventions in COVID-19 research. Journal of Behavioral Data Science, 2(1), 1–34.
Dablander, F*., Blanken, T. F*., Tanis, C. C*., Breed, R., Coffeng, L. E., Crommelin, D., … Borsboom, D. (2022). A Multidisciplinary Perspective on COVID-19 Exit Strategies. PsyArXiv.
[* shared first authorship]
Blanken, T. F., Tanis, C. C., Nauta, F. H., Dablander, F., Zijlstra B., Bouten, R. R. M., Oostvogel, Q. H., Boersma, M. J., Van der Steenhoven, F., Van Harreveld, F., De Wit, S., & Borsboom, D. (2021). Promoting physical distancing during COVID-19: a systematic approach to compare behavioral interventions. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-8.
Tanis, C. C., Leach, N. M., Geiger, S. J., Nauta, F. H., Dablander, F., Harreveld, F. van, … Blanken, T. F. (2021). Smart Distance Lab’s art fair, experimental data on social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data, 8, 179.
Weigard, A., Matzke, D., Tanis, C., & Heathcote, A. (2023). Cognitive process modeling addresses context independence violations in the ABCD study stop-signal task. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 59, 101191.
Marsman, M., Tanis, C. C., Bechger, T. M., & Waldorp, L. J. Network Psychometrics in Educational Practice. In B. P. Veldkamp & C. Sluijter (Eds.). Theoretical and Practical Advances in Computer-based Educational Measurement (pp. 93–120). Cham: Springer International Publishing