Suggestibility and Child Interviewing

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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:...

 

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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...

 

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More Than Suggestion: The Effect of Interviewing Techniques from the McMartin Preschool Case (with Sena Garven, Roy S. Malpass, and John S. Shaw), Journal of Applied Psychology (1998)

Child interviewing techniques derived from transcripts of the McMartin Preschool case were found to be...

 

Rorschach Inkblot Test & Other Projective Tests

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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...

 

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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....

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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Clinical Assessment (with Howard N. Garb and Scott O. Lilienfeld), Annual Review of Psychology (2002)

Are clinical psychologists' assessment practices cost-effective? Are they scientifically sound? Are they fair and unbiased?...

 

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Effective use of projective techniques in clinical practice: Let the data help with selection and interpretation (with Howard N. Garb, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and M. Teresa Nezworski), Professional Psychology: Research and Practice (2002)

By learning about the validity of individual test scores, psychologists can avoid using scores that...

 

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What's wrong with this picture? (critique of projective tests) (with Scott O. Lilienfeld and Howard N. Garb), Scientific American (2001)

Psychologists often use the famous Rorschach Inkblot Test and related tools to assess personality and...

 

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Problems of the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach in Forensic Settings: Recent Developments (with M. Teresa Nezworski, William J. Stejskal, and R. K. McKinzey), Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice (2001)

The Comprehensive System for the Rorschach is currently the subject of heated controversy among psychologists....

 

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Problems withe norms of the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach: Methodological and Conceptual Considerations (with M. Teresa Nezworski, Howard N. Garb, and Scott O. Lilienfeld), Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. (2001)

In "The Misperception of Psychopathology: Problems with the Norms of the Comprehensive System for the...

 

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The Misperception of Psychopathology: Problems With the Norms of the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach (with M. Teresa Nezworski, Howard N. Garb, and Scott O. Lilienfeld), Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice (2001)

This article provides evidence from numerous published studies that the norms of Exner's Comprehensive System...

 

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The scientific status of projective techniqes. (with Scott O. Lilienfeld and Howard N. Garb), Psychological Science in the Public Interest (2000)

Although projective techniques continue to be widely used in clinical and forensic settings, their scientific...

 

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The Comprehensive System for the Rorschach: A Critical Examination. (with M. Teresa Nezworski and William J. Stejskal), Psychological Science (1996)

The Comprehensive System (Exner, 1993) is widely accepted as a reliable and valid approach to...

 

Decision Making

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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...

 

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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

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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...