Detecting Malingering. Definitions Malingering –Faking bad, exaggerating symptoms –Examples Defendants pleading NGRI Inmates getting their own prison.

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Detecting Malingering

Definitions Malingering –Faking bad, exaggerating symptoms –Examples Defendants pleading NGRI Inmates getting their own prison cells Veterans claiming PTSD Dissimulation –Faking good, downplaying symptoms –Examples Inmates applying for parole Applicants applying for police jobs Patients being released from mental hospitals

Methods for Detecting Malingering and Dissimulation Nonverbal cues during clinical interview Scores on psychological tests Comparison of symptoms to norms

Most NGRI Patients are Schizophrenic (Rogers & Shuman, 2000) DisorderPercentage Schizophrenic62.2 Personality disorder12.0 Organic disorder or mental retardation5.8 Mood disorder5.0 Other11.6

Comparing Symptoms to Norms The Psychological Disorder Malingerers –Overact their part –Are eager to call attention to their symptoms –Use absurd and inconsistent thoughts –Symptoms may not fit a diagnostic category –Claim the sudden onset of a delusion –Present themselves as blameless within their feigned illness

Rogers & Shuman (2000) 6 Signs of Malingering Rare symptoms Improbable and absurd responses Indiscriminant symptom endorsement Unlikely symptom combinations Contradictory symptoms Symptom severity

Comparing Symptoms to Norms Characteristics of the Crime Malingerers are likely to have non-psychotic alternative motives Non-malingerers seldom planned or prepared for their crime

Types of Hallucinations (Rogers, Thatcher, & Cavanaugh, 1984) TypePercentage Auditory42 Visual16 Olfactory (Penciuman)4 Somatic or tactile (Peraba) 7 About 1/3 of insane defendants have hallucinations compared to 1% of insane defendants

Comparing Symptoms to Norms The Hallucination Real hallucinations are intermittent rather than continuous 56% of real psychotics say that their hallucinations could be due to their imagination Real schizophrenics try to make the hallucinations go away

Comparing Symptoms to Norms Auditory Hallucinations 88% of real hallucinations are from outside the head –Usually outside the body –Sometimes from a body part 75% of real psychotics hear both male and female voices 76% hear the hallucination in both ears 98% of hallucinations are spoken in the person’s native language Most auditory hallucinations are brief (<20 seconds) Real psychotics can identify –Sex, race, age, and emotional state of the voice –The tone, volume, and rate of the voice Most auditory hallucinations ask for an interaction or a response from the person

Comparing Symptoms to Norms Visual and Other Hallucinations Real visual hallucinations –Normally are in color –Usually of normal sized people Real olfactory hallucinations are usually of unpleasant odors

Comparing Symptoms to Norms Responses to Questions Malingerers –More likely to repeat or answer questions slowly –Have contradictions in their accounts of a crime –Will often repeat their words exactly when asked to repeat what they said –Show concentration –Seldom remember things correctly

Case Paul Harrington Vietnam Veteran and Detroid Cop shot and killed his wife and two daughters, 6 and 9, in 1975 under questioning, he admitted that he‘d been haunted by a raid in Vietnam Hurrington was medicated and put on a watch in a psychatric institution for 1,5 year and then released 1982 got married again and had two sons 1990 submitted to psychiatric care for anxiety and depression 1999 repeated his atrocity. He‘d had a hallucinations, of being told to go kill people this time Harrington was found guilty and received a life sentence

Delusions A delusion is a patently false belief about external reality that is firmly held, despite obvious and incontrovertible proof to the contrary An insane delusion in a delusion that caused the crime or behavior under legal question to occur Delusions differ from overvalued ideas –The certainty of the inaccuracy –The firmness and permanency of the belief Delusions are found in 77% of people found to be insane versus less than 3% of the sane

Types of Delusions Rogers, Thatcher, & Cavanaugh (1984) Paranoid (53%) Ideas of reference (36%) Control (22%) Grandiosity (20%) Thought insertion (9%)

Amnesia Claims Methods to Detect Malingering Electronic Methods –Guilty Knowledge Test (Polygraph) –Brain Fingerprinting (P300 Spike) Feeling of knowing –How likely would you be to remember With more time With hints With a recognition task

Amnesia Claims Methods to Detect Malingering Symptom Validity Testing – Episodic Memory –Series of 2-alternative questions (e.g., was the victim’s hair brown or black) –Fakers will score below chance, people with amnesia will score at chance levels Indirect Memory Tests –What is this word kn_ _ _?

Exercise on Detecting Malingering

Using Validity Scales from Standardized Tests MMPI-2 is most common Types of Scales –Standard validity –Special malingering scales –Special dissimulation scales –Standard clinical scales –Supplementary/research scales

MMPI-2 Standard Validity Scales L (deliberate, unsophisticated, faking good) F (faking bad) K (subtle, defensiveness) Back page infrequency scale (Fb) –40 items; Measures faking bad on items in the later part of the test) Variable response inconsistency scale (VRIN) –67 pairs of items –Measures inconsistent responses –Scores of greater than 14 indicate inconsistent responding and invalidate the clinical scores True response inconsistency Scale (TRIN) –23 pairs of items –Measures tendency to pick true or to pick false

MMPI-2 Special Malingering Scales Gough’s F-K Scale Cofer’s Malingering Scale (MP or Cof) Wiener’s Subtle-Obvious Scale

MMPI-2 Special Dissimulation Scales Gough’s F-K Wiggins Social Desirability Scale (Sd) Edwards’ Social Desirability scale (SD) Desirability Scale (L + K)

MMPI-2 Standard Clinical Scales Hypochondriasis (Hs) Depression (D) Hysteria (Hy) Psychopathic Deviate (Pd) Masculinity- femininity (Mf) Paranoia (Pa) Psychasthenia (Pt) Schizophrenia (Sc) Hypomania (Ma) Social Introversion (Si)

Which Scale is Best? Research Strategies Known group comparisons Motivated groups approach Fake good or bad Simulate another person

Which Scale is Best? Research Method Moderates Effect Sizes (Aamodt, 1990) Research StrategyFF-K Known group Motivated groups Fake bad v. normal population4.40 Fake bad v. forensic population

Which Scale is Best? Research Results Research clearly indicates –F is best for detecting malingering –T-score greater than 120 indicates malingering No other validity or clinical scales add incremental validity (Aamodt, Dwight, & Surrette, 1996) Intelligent people with knowledge of the MMPI-2 are able to successfully malinger (Pelfrey & Aamodt, 1996) People who have been coached to escape detection can successfully malinger (Rogers, Bagby, & Chakraborty, 1993)

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