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MMPI in Today's WSJ

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The front page of today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a lengthy article about the most widely used personality test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The focus of the story is about a specialty sub-scale developed by Dr. Paul Lees-Haley called the "fake-bad" scale which is used to detect malingering. While the focus of the WSJ piece is on the scale's increased use in personal injury lawsuits, it is also used in criminal matters as well. It's safe to assume that much will be said by the professional mental health field in the coming days about this story. Among those comments will be the maxim that the MMPI is "just one piece of data" used in determining psychological states among litigants and defendants...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).