This article summarizes evidence and issues associated with psychological assessment.
Data from more than 125 meta-analyses on test validity and 800 samples examining …

Assessment of adult psychopathology relies heavily on self-reports. To determine how well
self-reports agree with reports by “informants” who know the person being assessed, the …

" Widely used by practitioners, researchers, and students--and now thoroughly revised with
70% new material--this is the most authoritative, comprehensive book on malingering and …

With the development of online data collection and instruments such as Amazon's
Mechanical Turk (MTurk), the appearance of malicious software that generates responses to …

Dependability coefficients such as test–retest correlations quantify transient error in test
scores due to occasion-specific variations in, for example, current mood or feelings. The …

This article proposes a theoretical model for explaining the psychometric effects of faking on
assessment procedures (eg, biodata, interviews, assessment center, personality inventories …

We examined the utility of the validity scales on the recently released Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory–2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2 RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008) to …

The prediction, control, and prevention of police corruption represent pervasive and
enduring problems. Researchers have suggested that intervention at the preemployment …

The effect of socially desirable responding (SDR) on the consensual validity of personality
traits was studied. SDR was operationalized as the sum of items weighted by their …

This study presents a new method for developing faking detection scales based on
idiosyncratic item‐response patterns. Two scoring schemes based on this approach strongly …