Psychological Injury, Law, and Malingering: Editorial

Running head: MALINGERING PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS

Malingering is defined as the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms in order to gain some external incentive (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In this paper, the focus is on malingering psychological symptoms only. While malingering is not recognized as a mental illness in the DSM-IV-TR, it is something that warrants clinical attention...

Editorial: genomics and criminal law.

Detection and diagnosis of malingering in electrical injury.

This paper sought to demonstrate that diagnosable malingering does occur in Electrical Injury (EI) and examine the relationship of malingering to potential indicators of the presence and severity of neurological injury. Eleven consecutive EI patients seen for neuropsychological evaluation were presented. Over half the patients met the Slick et al. (1999) criteria for at least Probable MND. Most...

Inaugural editorial for Psychological Assessment.

In this inaugural editorial, the author is honored to take on the role of Editor-in Chief of Psychological Assessment and welcome this opportunity to discuss my vision for the journal. His overall vision is that Psychological Assessment should remain the leading outlet for clinically oriented psychological assessment research. Beginning with the current issue, the journal is transitioning from ...

Editorial: The Future of Power Law Research

I argue that power law research must move from focusing on observation, interpretation, and modeling of power law behavior to instead considering the challenging problems of validation of models and control of systems. 1. The Problem with Power Law Research To begin, I would like to recall a humorous insight from the paper of Fabrikant, Koutsoupias, and Papadimitriou [Fabrikant et al. 01], cons...