I Just Want My Research Credit: Frequency of Suboptimal Effort in a Non-Clinical Healthy Undergraduate Sample

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 101-117

  DeRight, Jonathan ^a   Jorgensen, Randall S ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Effort testing; Performance validity testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATENT; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RESEARCH; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84929025854     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2014.989267     Document Type: Article

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