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Psychometric detection of fabricated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.4.501

Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and two groups instructed to fabricate its symptoms completed the MMPI. A discriminant function analysis of selected scale scores and an empirically derived decision rule successfully classified over 90% of the subjects.

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