Title

Assessment of malingering and falsification: Conceptual foundations and sources of error

Authors

David Faust, University of Rhode Island
David C. Ahern, The Warren Alpert Medical School
Ana J. Bridges, University of Arkansas
Leslie J. Yonce

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

11-1-2012

Abstract

How can one make both a false-negative and a valid-positive identification simultaneously? This can result either by identifying an injured individual who is also exaggerating deficit simply as a malingerer, or by identifying that same individual only as injured. In the first instance one misses the injury while correctly identifying malingering, and in the second instance one correctly identifies the injury but misses malingering.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation

Volume

9781461404422

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Faust, David, David C. Ahern, Ana J. Bridges, and Leslie J. Yonce. "Assessment of malingering and falsification: Conceptual foundations and sources of error." Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation 9781461404422, (2012): 1-67. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0442-2_1.