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Malingering

Known as: malinger, malingers 
Simulation of symptoms of illness or injury with intent to deceive in order to obtain a goal, e.g., a claim of physical illness to avoid jury duty.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2004
Review
2004
Determination of Effort Level, Exaggeration, and Malingering in Neurocognitive Assessment
Objectives:This article presents a review of the field of effort level determination in TBI assessment as well as how to… 
2004
2004
Commentary on Butcher, Arbisi, Atlis, and McNulty (2003) on the Fake Bad Scale.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Suspect Cognitive Symptoms in a 9-Year-Old Child: Malingering by Proxy?
Even though the veracity of children's claim of psychiatric symptoms has received increased attention in recent years… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Utility of the structured inventory of malingered symptomatology in identifying persons motivated to malinger psychopathology.
The Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) is one of a number of recently developed instruments designed to… 
1999
1999
Using intraindividual variability to detect malingering in cognitive performance.
The utility of measures for detecting malingering was evaluated using a simulation design in which half the participants were… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Detecting malingered memory deficits with the Recognition Memory Test.
The purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of using the Recognition Memory Test (RMT) as a marker for… 
1997
1997
Psychosomatic illnesses are not "all in the mind".
1996
1996
Can psychosis be malingered on the Rorschach? An empirical study.
Can psychosis be faked on the Rorschach? We examined this question by comparing 2 groups of subjects with a high incentive to… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The detection of malingering in criminal forensic groups: MMPI validity scales.
Despite the value of the MMPI to the forensic assessment of malingering (exaggeration) of psychopathology, few studies have… 
1981
1981
Chronic factitious disorder with physical symptoms (the Munchausen syndrome).
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