Suggestibility and Child Interviewing
Extracting False Statements From Child Witnesses....Fast!, Southern Methodist University Law School, Forensic Psychology Group (2007)
This presentation describes how reinforcement can induce children to make false accusations against adults in...
Can Reinforcement Induce Children to Falsely Incriminate Themselves? (with F. James Billings, Tanya Taylor, James Burns, Deb L. Corey, and Sena Garven), Law and Human Behavior (2007)
This study examined whether reinforcement can induce children to falsely incriminate themselves. Ninety-nine children in...
Suggestive interviewing in the McMartin Preschool and Kelly Michaels daycare abuse cases: A case study (with Nadja Schreiber, Lisa D. Bellah, Yolanda Martinez, Kristin A. McLaurin, Renata Strok, and Sena Garven), Social Influence (2006)
In the 1980s and early 1990s the United States witnessed an outbreak of bizarre "daycare...
How Sexual Abuse Interviews Go Astray: Implications for Prosecutors, Police, and Child Protection Services (with Sena Garven), Child Maltreatment (2000)
This article argues that child sexual abuse interviews can go astray in two different ways:...
The Effects of Reinforcement on Children's Mundane and Fantastic Claims (with Sena Garven and Roy S. Malpass), Journal of Applied Psychology (2000)
Garven, Wood, Malpass, & Shaw (1998) found that interviewing techniques from the McMartin Preschool case...
Rorschach Inkblot Test & Other Projective Tests
The Controversy Over Exner's Comprehensive System for the Rorschach: The Critics Speak, Independent Practitioner (2006)
The present article provides an update on the ongoing 10-year controversy concerning Exner's Comprehensive System...
Roots of the Rorschach Controversy (with Howard N. Garb, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and M. Teresa Nezworski), Clinical Psychology Review (2005)
The controversy surrounding the Rorschach is updated, and an analysis of its dynamics is offered....
The Rorschach Inkblot Test, Fortune Tellers, and Cold Reading (with M. Teresa Nezworski, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Howard N. Garb), Skeptical Inquirer (2003)
Famous clinical psychologists used the Rorschach Inkblot Test to arrive at incredible insights. But were...
Three Factors of the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach and Their Relationship to Wechsler IQ Scores in an Adolescent Sample (with Radhika Krishnamurthy and Robert P. Archer), Assessment (2003)
Principal axis factor analyses of the Rorschach Comprehensive System in a clinical sample of 152...
What's Right With the Rorschach? (with M. Teresa Nezworski and Howard N. Garb), Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice (2003)
In the present article, we discuss the validity and clinical utility of the Rorschach as...
Decision Making
Understanding and Computing Cohen’s Kappa: A Tutorial., WebPsychEmpiricist. Web Journal at http://wpe.info/ (2007)
Cohen’s Kappa (Cohen, 1960) is an index of interrater reliability that is commonly used to...
Weighing Evidence in Sexual Abuse Evaluations: An Introduction to Bayes's Theorem, Child Maltreatment (1996)
This article introduces readers to Bayes' theorem, a simple mathematical formula that can illuminate general...
Disclosure Process in Sexual Abuse
How Do Children Tell: The Disclosure Process in Child Sexual Abuse (with April Bradley), Child Abuse and Neglect (1996)
Children's disclosure of sexual abuse has been described as a quasi-developmental process that includes stages...