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Cognitive impairment does not cause invalid performance: analyzing performance patterns among cognitively unimpaired, impaired, and noncredible participants across six performance validity tests

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Pages 1083-1101 | Received 23 Jan 2018, Accepted 31 Jul 2018, Published online: 26 Nov 2018

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