Using the MMPI-3 in Legal Settings

Ben‐Porath, Yossef S.; Heilbrun, Kirk; Rizzo, Madelena

doi:10.1080/00223891.2021.2006672

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“…The MMPI-2-RF was revised to include updated norms and additional item content and scales not included on earlier versions of the instrument. More recently, the MMPI-Third Edition (MMPI-3) was released in 2020 with new scales and a contemporary normative sample designed to match the projected 2020 census (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2020), and it will likely be adopted by many forensic practitioners and commonly used in forensic evaluations (Ben-Porath et al, 2022).…”

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Adapting assessment processes to consider cultural mistrust in forensic practices: An example with the MMPI instruments.

Dixon¹,

Caddell²,

Alexander³

et al. 2023

Law and Human Behavior

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Objective: Our first goal in this study was to identify cultural mistrust critical items (CMCIs) on two versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)-the MMPI-Second Edition-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) and MMPI-Third Edition (MMPI-3)-that might be endorsed by people of color because of cultural mistrust rather than clinical paranoia. Our second goal was to determine whether CMCIs and items on the MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-3 Ideas of Persecution scale (Restructured Clinical Scale 6 [RC6]) were endorsed at different rates across cultural groups in a nonclinical college sample and a forensic inpatient sample. Hypotheses: Our primary hypothesis was that expert raters would reliably identify a subset of MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-3 items as reflective of cultural mistrust. Black college students would endorse the highest level of CMCIs, followed by Latina/o students, and then White students. We hypothesized that the same pattern of findings would occur in forensic inpatients but that the differences would be attenuated because of the high base rate of psychiatric symptomatology and the nature of the forensic assessment setting. Method: Three Black female and three Black male psychologists rated the degree to which each item on the MMPI-2-RF and MMPI-3 reflected cultural mistrust. Black (n = 90), Latina/o (n = 83), and White (n = 100) college students were compared on CMCIs and on MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-3 RC6 item endorsement. The same comparisons were made among Black (n = 221), Latina/o (n = 142), and White (n = 483) forensic inpatients who completed the MMPI-2-RF. Results: Black college students endorsed the highest levels of cultural mistrust, followed by Latina/o students, and then White students, resulting in small-to-medium effect sizes (Hedges's gs = 0.14-0.52). Although we observed some item-level differences in forensic patients, the overall pattern of item endorsement did not significantly differ in this group. Conclusions: There are multiple reasons for the reporting of clinical paranoia and cultural mistrust in forensic assessment. Public Significance StatementCultural mistrust is an adaptive response to racial oppression and discrimination faced by people of color (POC) in the United States but can be misinterpreted as clinical paranoia. In the present study, we outlined a method for identifying items on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) instruments to help differentiate cultural mistrust from clinical paranoia, which will assist forensic psychologists with accurately assessing POC. Overall, the findings from the present study suggest that POC are, in fact, more likely to endorse items on the MMPI instruments that are intended to measure clinical paranoia and that forensic practitioners should assess for cultural mistrust.

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Adapting assessment processes to consider cultural mistrust in forensic practices: An example with the MMPI instruments.

Dixon¹,

Caddell²,

Alexander³

et al. 2023

Law and Human Behavior

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“…In the field of psychometrics, MMPI, where he developed the K factor and now in its third iteration after undergoing standardizations on more racially and educationally representative adult samples, is a hallmark of psychological testing with validity scales that provide information about a subject's response bias such as overreporting and social desirability. The settings of its administration have since been extended to forensic assessment 13 and pre-surgical screening evaluations 14 to assist legal and medical professionals to understand the psychological profiles of a client or patient as objectively as possible in making high-stakes decisions. On the data science side, especially in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the predictive principles and structure of neural and behavioral data are surfacing at faster rates with few human formal assumptions 15 .…”

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Remembering Paul E. Meehl: Historical Contributions to Predictive Modeling in Human Behavior

Ryu

2023

Harv Rev Psychiatry

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This article briefly examines the life and work of the late clinical psychologist and philosopher of science Paul E. Meehl. His thesis in Clinical versus Statistical Prediction (1954) that the data combination performed by mechanical operations, as compared to clinicians, achieves higher accuracy in predicting human behavior is one of the earliest theoretical works that laid the groundwork for utilizing statistics and computational modeling in research in psychiatry and clinical psychology. For today’s psychiatric researchers and clinicians grappling with the challenges of translating the ever-increasing data of the human mind into practice tools, Meehl’s advocacy for both accurate modeling of the data and their clinically relevant use is timely.

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“…Although the PSY-5 scales were not designed to measure Criterion B of the AMPD, these scales may serve as an additional tool to measure a trait model markedly similar to that of the five AMPD domains. Moreover, clinicians can generate PSY-5 data without the need to administer additional instruments, and there is clear research related to the use of the MMPI in forensic settings (e.g., Ben-Porath et al, 2022). However, it is worth noting that the PSY-5 scales only offer domain-level information and there is no MMPI-based measure of Criterion A that currently exists.…”

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The alternative model for personality disorders and violence risk: Where are we now? Where are we going?

Russell,

Ruchensky

2023

Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

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Using the MMPI-3 in Legal Settings

Cited by 8 publications

References 55 publications

Adapting assessment processes to consider cultural mistrust in forensic practices: An example with the MMPI instruments.

Adapting assessment processes to consider cultural mistrust in forensic practices: An example with the MMPI instruments.

Remembering Paul E. Meehl: Historical Contributions to Predictive Modeling in Human Behavior

The alternative model for personality disorders and violence risk: Where are we now? Where are we going?

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