The detection of malingered psychopathology and cognitive deficits: Employing the fake bad scale and the Raven's standard progressive matrices

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-99

  Sellers, Steven ^a   Byrne, Mitchell K ^a   Golus, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MALINGERING; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746337274     PISSN: 13218719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/pplt.13.1.91     Document Type: Article

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