Author Archives: Dr. Ingram's Psychology Research Lab

We must move beyond traditional statistical and research-based approaches to focus on item experience—the process by which individuals attend to, interpret, abstract, and respond to the constituent elements of a test item. Each of these elements—wording, implied time frame, reference class, emotional salience, response format, and contextual assumptions—contributes to an item-level environment that shapes howContinue reading “methods thoughts”

I’ll be posting an update soon with a number of papers and such from the last year, along with links to those PDFs and a brief discussion of what I found in each and how I think about it. I wanted to make a few notes about SVTs and symptom validity testing here, and howContinue reading “Symptom Validity”

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!”