Evaluation of Malingering and Related Response Styles

The Development of the Inventory of Problems–29: A Brief Self-Administered Measure for Discriminating Bona Fide From Feigned Psychiatric and Cognitive Complaints

“…To maximize generalizability we took several methodological cautions, such as providing contexts to facilitate malingering, offering extra incentives for the best feigners, cautioning to not exaggerate so as to produce a believable profile, etc. (Rogers, 1997Rogers & Bender, 2013;Rogers & Gillard, 2011;Viglione et al, 2001 (RDF). PPP, NPP, and OCC are calculated using the base rate of our sample, which is equal to .50.…”

“…Landis' (1996) study, for example, aimed at contrasting bona fide PTSD patients to PTSD simulators, and also excluded potential For example, simulators of depression were asked to imagine that they had had an accident at work, that such accident was caused by their boss' negligence, that their boss decided to unreasonably limit their recovery time (thereby cutting their disability payments), and that their only chance to remain on disability would be to fake depression. To limit extreme, unrealistic portrayals of disorders by simulators and to minimize an artificially large effect size that might limit generalization to real life situations, simulators were warned that if they presented their symptoms too dramatically, their performance would not be believable (Rogers & Bender, 2013Viglione, Wright, Dizon, Moynihan, DuPuis, & Pizitz, ,2001). …”

“…First, we conceptualized malingering as a person-situation interaction with a developmental course over a period of time, reinforced through powerful incentives (Rogers, 1988). Secondly, since malingerers adopt different strategies and situations induce various approaches from individuals (Rogers & Bender, 2013;Rogers, Harrell, & Liff, 1993) calculation, and reasoning items (e.g., "Reading is to a Book, as Listening is to a Song").…”

A Critical Analysis of the MND Criteria for Feigned Cognitive Impairment: Implications for Forensic Practice and Research

“…They need to rule out other motivations that may be confounding test results. Especially in the disability context, frustration with implicit attacks on examinees' credibility (Rogers & Payne, 2006) and other lexogenic effects (Samra & Koch, 2002) must be considered (Rogers & Bender, 2011).…”

Framing the Results: Assessment of Response Bias Through Select Self-Report Measures in Psychological Injury Evaluations

“…One particular approach employed by several self-report validity scales, termed Rare Symptoms, incorporates the frequency of psychopathology symptoms (Rogers & Bender, 2012). Many individuals feigning symptoms endorse those items that are rarely experienced among patients with genuine illness.…”