I'm writing a paper in LaTeX according to a CogSci template which uses two columns. However, I have a very wide table which needs to span accross both columns to be shown correctly. I want this table at the bottom of the current page and therefore could not use table* (which can only place things at the top of the current page or at that position). So I found online that I needed to use a local minipage, which kind of works fine as you can see below. The table is at the correct spot and apans two columns; however the column in the right side is superimposed on the table rendering both unreadable.
How can I solve this?
I use this code for the table:
\begin{table}[b!]
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\centering
\setcounter{table}{3}
\begin{tabular}{l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l}
~ & $P$ & $S$ & $SP$ & $T$ & $TP$ & $TS$ & $TSP$ \\ \hline
\textit{no restrictions} & $.150$ & $.013$ & $.106$ & $.036$ & $< .001^*$ & $< .001^*$ & $< .001^*$ \\ \hline
$P$ & - & $.022$ & $.557$ & $.640$ & $.006$ & $.004$ & $ .001^*$ \\ \hline
$S$ & - & - & $.020$ & $.002$ & $< .001^*$ & $< .001^*$ & $< .001^*$ \\ \hline
$SP$ & - & - & - & $.888$ & $.032$ & $.003$ & $< .001^*$ \\ \hline
$T$ & - & - & - & - & $.008$ & $< .002$ & $< .001^*$ \\ \hline
$TP$ & - & - & - & - & - & $.403$ & $.022$ \\ \hline
$TS$ & - & - & - & - & - & - & $.006$ \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Overview of $p$-values for every combination of the restrictions\label{table:posthoc}.}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

multicolprobably isn't an option. in the question linked by @DavidCarlisle, there is a link to yet another question with an approach that works withtwocolumn. in brief, in the second column, insert\enlargethispage{-12\baselineskip}or actually a little less in the second column to make it match the length of the first. – barbara beeton Nov 06 '13 at 01:40