Author Archives: Dr. Ingram's Psychology Research Lab

Today was not a writing day…   Thanks to Brittney for all the help cutting out our zombie assistant professors. If this isn’t spooky I don’t know what is! Come on psychology door decoration contest!

First off, I can’t say enough awesome things about Dr. Joe Currin. We’re lucky to have had him join us at TTU. I (along with Brittney) am doing some really cool collaborations with him: we are developing a behavioral theoretical orientation scale and exploring how orientation and considerations of ‘what supervision is’ plays a role inContinue reading “More Fall update: All the other things!”

What a great conference to attend with the lab. Simply put, Strong Star puts on awesome conferences and we had a blast in San Antonio – so many awesome speakers talking about the future of PTSD treatment. As we carpooled down we talked a lot about next steps in the lab, so I wanted to highlightContinue reading “Post PTSD conference & Partial Fall update”

Following the the lab’s pilot research (see Ingram, Cribbet, and Schdmit, 2018) on assessment training and educational outcomes in health service psychology, Dr. Schmidt and I have submitted a grant to evaluate these trends across the nation in all APA-approved programs. We hope our work will inform health service psychology training and promote a more empirically-based approachContinue reading “Assessment training”

Thanks to the awesome Dr. Joe Currin for making our amazing lab logo! There is also so much going on as well in the lab for both assessment research and the treatment seeking work. I have several papers out right now on the MMPI-2-RF, much of it based on the papers we have presented in theContinue reading “New Lab Logo and Quick Update”

I can’t believe I’m starting year two as an assistant professor already! This one is going to be a busy year for sure and I’m excited to have my new advisee Brittney Golden joining the lab. I just got out of several meetings today and there are some exciting research projects going this fall. Also,Continue reading “Fall Semester is almost here!”

Today was a busy day for MMPI Research with a lot of exciting progress. The Validity Scale Presentation from the 7-year MMPI-2-RF sample from VAs around the country that will be presented in two weeks at the 2018 MMPI symposium has been finished. This presentation examines validity scale response style within the VA and there areContinue reading “MMPI Research Update today”

Some colleagues and I here at Texas Tech are taking a look at training trends in assessment (Click me for the presentation PPT) and the implications that has for the validity of instrument use. After all, if scales are valid indicators of their intended constructs but are not used appropriately or consistently (especially during graduate schoolContinue reading “Personality Assessment Training”

Below are the presentations being presented this year by the lab. If you will be at APA or the MMPI symposium, come see what we’re doing in person. Ingram, P.B., Tarescavage, A.M., Ben-Porath, Y.S., & Oehlert, M.E. (2018, April). The MMPI-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Validity Scales: Patterns Observed across Veteran Affairs Settings. Paper accepted at theContinue reading “Upcoming presentations of research”

MMPI-3: Revision of MMPI-2 or Marketing Hype? The MMPI-3 is the next step because the dated psychometric standards that the MMPI/MMPI-2 are based on can’t continue to guide our interpretation of personality constructs. They simply don’t align to modern psychometric practice or to contemporary understanding of what personality is/how it is structured. The concerns outlinedContinue reading “The MMPI-3 is coming (and it needs to)”