When Patients Overreport Symptoms: More Than Just Malingering
Mental-health patients may report more symptoms than they actually experience. Experts and laypeople often view this overreporting as a sign of malingering. We show that there are multiple pathways to symptom overreporting: carryover effects from previous tests that lower the threshold for answering...
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Published in | Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 321 - 326 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Los Angeles, CA
SAGE Publications
01.06.2019
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC |
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