Commentary on Butcher, Arbisi, Atlis, and McNulty (2003) on the Fake Bad Scale

Lees–Haley, Paul R.

doi:10.1016/j.acn.2003.12.004

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“…However, even for this scale, the sensitivity was only 40% for the naïve and 25% for the warned group. Moreover, different cutoffs have been proposed for a number of validity scales, in particular for the FBS (Butcher, Gass, Cumella, Kally, & Williams, 2008;Larrabee, 2003;Lees-Haley & Fox, 2004). If the cutoff proposed by Butcher et al (2008), which is the one currently used by Pearson Assessments, would have been used for the classification, FBS sensitivity rates would drop considerably from 50% to 30% for the naïve and from 10% to 0% for the warned malingerers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Detection of Feigned Crime-Related Amnesia: A Multi-Method Approach

Giger

Merten

Oswald

2010

Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice

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Claims of crime-related amnesia appear to be common. Using a mock crime approach, the diagnostic power of seven symptom validity instruments was investigated. Sixty participants were assigned to three conditions: responding honestly; feigning crime-related amnesia; feigning amnesia with a warning not to exaggerate. High sensitivity and specificity were obtained for the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology, the Amsterdam Short-Term Memory Test, and the Morel Emotional Numbing Test. Only three warned malingerers went undetected. The results demonstrate that validated instruments exist to support forensic decision making about crime-related amnesia. Yet, warning may undermine their effectiveness, even when using a multi-method approach.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Detection of Feigned Crime-Related Amnesia: A Multi-Method Approach

Giger

Merten

Oswald

2010

Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice

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“…Although there has been controversy surrounding the FBS and its value (Arbisi and Butcher 2004;Ben-Porath et al 2009;Butcher et al 2003Butcher et al , 2008Greve and Bianchini 2004b;Lees-Haley and Fox 2004;Williams et al 2009), recent studies (Ardolf et al 2007;Bianchini et al 2008;Demakis et al 2008;Sellers et al 2006;Wygant et al 2007) provide evidence of FBS's validity. Unlike the F family and other traditional response-style scales, FBS typically shows a substantial relationship to performance on cognitive SVTs (Larrabee 2003;Sellers et al 2006;Wygant et al 2007; but see Whitney et al 2008).…”

Section: Self-report Inventories and Structured Interviewsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Assessing Response Style and Malingering

Rubenzer¹

2009

Psychol. Inj. and Law

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may form the basis for disability or worker's compensation claims or a personal injury lawsuit. While now achieving widespread acceptance among treating professionals and the public, PTSD is the subject of several controversies and the possibility of faking in a compensation context. There appears to be a dramatic split among mental health professionals who write primarily from a treatment or plaintiff perspective and those who take a more skeptical approach. This article reviews recent developments in the assessment of malingering, including symptom validity measures, and applies them to the assessment of PTSD. Recommendations for current practice are provided.

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“…Applying the FBS in other contexts is analogous to applying the Marital Distress scale to single persons." As we will see in the next section on the publisher's statement, now that the FBS is added to the MMPI-2, it is being applied much more broadly, including in the settings described by Butcher et al (2003), as well as the next one we describe below (see Arbisi and Butcher 2004 for more responses to Lees-Haley andFox 2004, andBianchini 2004 regarding their criticisms of Butcher et al 2003).…”

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Potential for Bias in MMPI-2 Assessments Using the Fake Bad Scale (FBS)

Butcher

Gass

Cumella³

et al. 2008

Psychol. Inj. and Law

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The Fake Bad Scale (FBS), developed to identify malingering of emotional distress among claimants seeking compensation for personal injuries, was recently added to the MMPI-2 scoring materials, resulting in its widespread dissemination across the various clinical settings that use the MMPI-2 in psychological evaluations. We examine: (1) questions of item bias in the FBS; (2) how malingering and nonmalingering groups are identified in FBS studies, including whether the research has been broadly inclusive and fully represents the populations assessed by the MMPI-2; (3) the reliability and validity of the FBS; (4) the highly variable recommendations for raw score cut-offs and how they relate to T scores; (5) two inpatient groups [men in a tertiary care Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (VA) unit and women in an eating disorders program] who may be inappropriately labeled as malingering by the FBS; (6) the publisher's statement on use of the FBS; and (7) a Frye hearing in Florida where the FBS was excluded from expert testimony, one of three so far. We raise questions about its potential bias against people with disabilities and physical illnesses, women, individuals exposed to highly traumatic situations, and those motivated to present themselves in a favorable light. Psychologists using the FBS for making decisions about clients' motivations need to be aware of the serious problems with the scale's use and the cases of its inadmissibility in court.

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Commentary on Butcher, Arbisi, Atlis, and McNulty (2003) on the Fake Bad Scale

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Detection of Feigned Crime-Related Amnesia: A Multi-Method Approach

Detection of Feigned Crime-Related Amnesia: A Multi-Method Approach

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Assessing Response Style and Malingering

Potential for Bias in MMPI-2 Assessments Using the Fake Bad Scale (FBS)

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