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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Feigning"”.
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Postmodern Alienation: Projecting Worlds/Feigning Subjects
<p>Structured by an alternating focus on characters and worlds, my project offers a framework to consider the fragmentation of the modern subject in postmodernity. On one hand, I roll back the theoretical critique of the subject and, on the other, show that modernism's basic configuration of …
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Feigning Cognitive Deficits on Neuropsychological Evaluations: Multiple Detection Strategies
… are customarily asked to test for neurocognitive feigning during the assessment. The current study employed an analogue design with a clinical comparison group to examine the utility of the TOCA (Rogers, 1996) as a measure of feigned neurocognitive impairment. Two groups of simulators (one …
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Detecting feigning in adolescents on the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent form
… evaluations are susceptible to clients feigning the existence of psychopathological symptoms. Much of the research on identifying feigning in psychological assessment has focused on adults despite the idea that adolescents are also capable of deception. The purpose of the present study …
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Reducing False Positive Feigning Classifications on the SIRS among Criminal Defendants with a History of Trauma
… as an additional criterion in determining feigning. The TI has not been studied using a forensic sample. Fifty-one adult male criminal defendants were identified as malingering by the SIRS with a final sample of 5 definite cases and 5 marginal cases that met the criteria set forth by Rogers …
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Assessing Instructed Feigner's Response to the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale
… who are genuinely suggestible and those who are feigning higher suggestibility levels, past researchers have raised concerns regarding the layperson’s ability to feign higher suggestibility levels as measured by the GSS-1. This paper examines the ability to feign higher interrogative …
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Eliza Haywood's Feigning Femmes Fatale: Desirous and Deceptive Women in "Fantomina," <em>Love in Excess</em>, and <em>The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless</em>.
<p>Within the pages of Eliza Haywood's novels, masquerade is often used by female characters as a means by which to gain control or power. More specifically, Haywood's female characters often misrepresent themselves as a means by which to achieve sexual power and even to obtain sexual …
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A Review of Malingering Measures in Psychology
<p>Malingering describes the act of feigning physical or psychological symptoms for external gain, which may include exaggerating symptoms on psychological testing. Thus, standardized measures are needed to detect malingering and invalid responses for accurate interpretation of test results. This …
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A dream of the sacred
… Each stone, solid, whole, each, an open eye, feigning sleep. Holding secret its very center. Dream Powerful in its simplicity. One stark picture frame. Like a billboard in an endless landscape, it comes between two other dreams. It is the cross section of a stone. Thin skinned and ordinary on …
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Competency to Stand Trial: A Systematic Evaluation and Validation of the GCCT, MacCAT-CA, and ECST as Competency Measures
… ECST performed well at screening individuals for feigning. Finally, prediction of competency from clinical variables was also investigated. Psychotic symptoms and overall impairment were the strongest predictors of incompetency.
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Assessing Differential Item Functioning Across Clinical and Community Samples in the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test
… to accurately identify individuals who may be feigning symptoms for personal gain. The detection of differential item functioning (DIF) using item response theory methods provides a powerful method of evaluating whether items on a malingering assessment measure function differently in civil …
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Unwinding Duchamp: Mots et Paroles a Tous les Etages
… of irony in debate. Socratic irony is defined as feigning ignorance in order to confute an enemy in debate. Irony is saying the opposite of what you mean. Duchamp's practice of the practise of ironisme did not then manifest itself in an art questioning its own conditions, by dissemblance, as is …
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Towards a Decolonial Haole Rhetoric
… settlers and Native Hawaiians, where rather than feigning innocence, white settlers instead consider histories of colonialism as sites on which to build responsible relationalities that may be productive for efforts of decolonization. This project demonstrates how Indigeneity can inform haole …
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A Multi-Method Assessment Approach to the Detection of Malingered Pain: Association with the MMPI-2 Restructured Form
<p>The present study investigated the utility of the MMPI-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) over-reporting scales (F-r, Fp-r, Fs, and FBS-r) and the Response Bias Scale (RBS) to detect symptom exaggeration among litigants claiming chronic pain. Utilizing the Bianchini et al. (2005) multi-method …
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Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, the EU and the Potential to Realize Nietzsche's Idea of Europe
… effort to avoid forming convictions and feigning agreement with prevailing value standards when necessary, which corresponds with the strategic use of masks), and finally, from the ancient cynics, the concept of <em>parrhesia</em> (fearless speech in mocking ascetic values). These …