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| My research has three
primary interests: (a) suicide; (b) strategies
for constructing inventories of personality
and psychopathology; and (c) methods for
detecting faking on self-report inventories.
Research on suicide concerns clinical and
non-clinical populations and examines the
roles of psychache, hopelessness, and motivations
in predicting suicide ideation, attempts,
and completions. In test construction, my
focus is on evaluating the best methods for
writing individual test items. Applications
include research, clinical, counseling, employment,
and forensic contexts. Investigations of
faking examine the formulation of models
of responding and the search for anomalies
that indicate discrepancies (i.e.,
lies). Research deals with student, psychiatric
patient, inmate, and job applicant populations. |
