A few highlights. For the complete, up-to-date list, see the full CV (PDF).
Software papers
- Garrison, S. M. (2026). ggpedigree: Visualizing Pedigrees with ‘ggplot2’ and ‘plotly’. Journal of Open Source Software, 11(118), 9434.
- Garrison, S. M., Hunter, M., Lyu, X., Trattner, J., & Burt, S. A. (2024). BGmisc: An R Package for Extended Behavior Genetics Analysis. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(94), 6203.
Selected papers
- Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., … Garrison, S. M., … Nosek, B. (2026). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature, 652, 135–142.
- Burt, S. A., Garrison, S. M., Lyu, X., Rodgers, J. L., Carroll, S. L., Smith, K. R., & Hunter, M. D. (2025). Contributions of inherited mtDNA to longevity: evidence from extended pedigrees with 176 million kinship pairs. eBioMedicine.
- Lyu, X., Hunter, M. D., Burt, S. A., Good, R., Carroll, S. L., & Garrison, S. M. (2025). Detecting mtDNA Effects with an Extended Pedigree Model. Behavior Genetics. — Editors’ Choice Award, Best Paper in Volume 55.
- Garrison, S. M. & Rodgers, J. L. (2019). Decomposing the Causes of the Socioeconomic Status-Health Gradient with Biometrical Modeling. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(6), 1030–1047.
- Jackson, J. J., Connolly, J. J., Garrison, S. M., Leveille, M., & Connolly, S. L. (2015). Your friends know how long you will live: A 75-year study of peer-rated personality traits. Psychological Science, 26(3), 335-340.
Book
- Garrison, S. M. (2021–present). Data Science for Psychologists. Free, open-source multimedia textbook written in R about R.