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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”

Feigning is frequently conceptualized across somatic, psychological, and cognitive symptom sets (e.g., Slick et al., 1999; Sherman et al., 2020), in both SVTs and PVTs (see Rogers & Bender, 2018 for a more comprehensive summary). Given this conceptual mapping of response set targets, validity scales have been developed for the popular personality (e.g., MMPI, PAI)Continue reading “Some Comparisons of Validity Scales Across Somatic, Psychological, and Cognitive Symptoms”

Cole’s recent paper examining the new EAT scale in the MMPI-3! In addition to expanding available correlations / validity coefficients (see table below), the paper examines differences in relationships between EAT scores and those criterions based on gender. Before diving into the findings, its important to note that prior research has found EAT to beContinue reading “MMPI-3 Eating Concerns (EAT) Scale In college Men and Women”

In our lab group text this morning, it was confirmed that this picture of Brittney should be a very important lab website update. I did it quickly enough that I only received minimal harassment for not focusing on what matters quickly enough. However, I wont publicly name the person who shamed me into hurrying upContinue reading “Lab news”

The PATS lab just published another paper on the MMPI-3, just accepted into the Journal of Personality Assessment. This time, we took a look at the new 5-item Eating Concerns (EAT) scale and examined the potential of gender differences on its utility and validity. Because EAT is designed as a general screener of eating pathology,Continue reading “The MMPI-3’s Eating Concerns (EAT) Scale: A study on”

Lets just take a second to dote on them and highlight the reasons (something I’m sure is making them cringe as they read this): (1) they have A-FREAKING-TON of publications as a grad student, (2) people see them as independent and their research thinking is 1000% on point for a starting faculty (even though theyContinue reading “Cole Morris is a Rockstar!”

Well, March is going to be exciting! PATS is headed to SPA again and the amazing Tina Greene put together an awesome program guide to help those who are at SPA who want to see what our lab is doing – and for the PATS lab to keep track of all 14(!!) different presentations/awards. ClickContinue reading “Society of Personality Assessment: Conference Planning!”

Previous work has examined PAI response patterns on those with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), but these research efforts have faced a number of notable challenges. Accordingly, findings between studies have often contradicted. There are a variety of reasons for these contradictions including, but not limited to, that prior research has: (1) not excluded individualsContinue reading “New Article: mTBI response patterns in Active-Duty personnel on the PAI”

Click here to download the article PDF We had another paper published recently looking at the detection of cognitive over-reporting on the PAI, examining the CBS again (see also Armistead-Jehle et al., 2021) along with the new CB-SOS scales. The SOS scales offer a scale level approach to incorporating a cognitive-specific over-reporting scale, rather thanContinue reading “Cognitive Over-Reporting Detection on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)”