Author Archives: Dr. Ingram's Psychology Research Lab

I’ve been thinking a lot about behavioral modeling, particularly as it relates to validation of non concurrent prediction. In psychological reorganization (beh change), within-person variability is likely to increase, particularly when constraints are loosening (eg social or environment expectations and personal rules/strategies) and alternative (competing?) response strategies are active, dynamic and conditional indicators emerges. AsContinue reading “modeling and measurement”

Over the last year, I’ve been working with HDFS Faculty Dr. Jackson in collaboration with The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) to strengthen Lubbock’s First Friday Art Trail. This project started during my time in the provost’s office working on outreach and engagement, with my primary role being to generate societal impactContinue reading “Art Trail”

I wanted to provide an update on several exciting projects. There are a ton of excellent ongoing projects that will be included in future updates, but here is a summary of some recent papers. Recently Published In order to provide more regular future updates, Tina is going to be helping me! 🙂

In my view, many of the most important and most interesting questions we have about symptom validity remains either unanswered, or rarely explored. The purpose of this paper is to outline some patterns I have observed, and to describe what I believe are critical steps for the future of the field – and for theContinue reading “Symptom Validity: Some observations and Comments about Over-Reporting”

So many things, so so many things (hopefully I didn’t miss too many big things) Our paper on the MMPI-2-RF/3 Scale of Scales (SOS) development is out in JCEN (in press now, as of today), producing a scale that uses a symptom severity approach via the RC scales for broad and effective over-reporting detection. TheContinue reading “Updates (some of the many)”

Here is the first of the dives into posters presented this year at the Combat PTSD conference. Great work by Tristan and Ari on this one! There is a history of research looking at the influence of Service Era on broadband personality assessment inventory instruments (Glenn et al., 2022 [MMPI-2]; Ingram et al., 2020a[MMPI-2-RF]; IngramContinue reading “Contextual Considerations: Service Era”

Man, we had a blast. First off, Congrats to Luke Childers for winning a student poster award for his research looking at PTSD diagnosis in Active-Duty Personnel Using the MMPI-2. Killed it. Also, everyone did some awesome research – we had stuff looking at PTSD screening in two separate samples (AD and Veteran), we hadContinue reading “Back from the 2023 Combat PTSD Conference”

I started working with Sarah as an undergrad in Bob Morgan’s lab at Tech, collecting assessment data from local CJ sites that included the MMPI-2-RF, PICTS, and a few other measures. The PICTS is a measure of criminogenic risk, so it offered a really cool opportunity to look at the MMPI and its relationship toContinue reading “Sarah’s First Pub with Me!”

I’ve been spending more time focused on trying to figure out what problems neeed to be solved with validity. If we don’t know the problems, we aren’t going to work towards the solution and may not even recognize it. To the best of my sense right now, there are 3 fundamental problems in validity detectionContinue reading “Validity Directions”

I like to reflect on all the old classic “summary of science” books written by the various titans of our field. Revisiting some of these earlier discourses has given some interesting insight into often overlooked, but widely known and acknowledged, facts about the field. I didn’t really edit this, and its more of a lateContinue reading “Oh Psychology”