Before beginning to talk about the use of the MMPI in teaching personality assessment, I want to say a few words about the context in which this paper was written. I am a clinical psychologist, and I work in a prison. Furthermore, in the eyes of many of my colleagues, I am an MMPI fanatic. That is, I use the test, regularly, and have done so for many years; and over the years I have come to bel...

This study's aim was to assess the validity of naive subjects' implicit personality theories, the correspondence among the theories, and the influence of social desirability on them. High school girls classified the items from the MMPI Psychopathic Deviate scale into clusters representing different traits. These clusters agreed closely with the factors obtained in previous factor analyses of se...

Bluetooth based networking is an emerging and promising technology that takes small area networking to an enhanced and better level of communication. Bluetooth specification supports piconet formation. However, scatternet formation remains open. The primary challenge faced for scatternet formation is the interconnection of piconets. This paper presents a review of the proposed approaches and th...

The reviews by Rogers, Sewell, Harrison, and Jordan (2006/this issue), and by Nichols (2006/this issue) offer markedly contrasting appraisals of the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales introduced by Tellegen et al. (2003). The one common feature is that both reviews draw on the same atypical MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) data set for their empirical analyse...

We investigated the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical (RC) scales (Tellegen et al., 2003) to determine if they had a more differentiated factor structure than the MMPI-2 Clinical scales. When factored alone, the RC scales had a 5-dimensional structure; the Clinical scales had 3 dimensions. When factored in combination with the Content scales, both sets of scales produced 5 dimensions. However, the R...

Multiple personality disorder (MPD) has at times been confused with both schizophrenia (SCHIZ) and borderlinepersonality disorder (BPD). In this study, 38patients withDSM-III-R diagnosis ofMPD (N = 16), SCHIZ (N = 11), or BPD (N = 11) were evaluated with a battery of structured interviews (SCID, DDIS) and psychometric tests (MMPI, MCMI, DES) in order to define distinguishing features among the ...

A modification of Kuethe's method for investigating social schemata in which 5s place magnets representing "mother," "father," and significant others on a board in relation to a centrally placed "self" magnet was administered along with the MMPI to 30 recently admitted female psychiatric patients. Distance between self and mother magnets was correlated with increased schizophrenia (Sc) and decr...