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Original Articles

Advancing Personality Assessment Terminology: Time to Retire "Objective" and "Projective" As Personality Test Descriptors

Pages 223-225 | Published online: 10 Jun 2010

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Maximilian Wertz, Lisa Hank, Joscha Hausam, Norbert Konrad, Kolja Schiltz, Roland Imhoff & Martin Rettenberger. (2022) The use and reporting practice of psychological tests in German risk and criminal responsibility expert reports. Psychology, Crime & Law 0:0, pages 1-18.
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Donald J. Viglione, Corine de Ruiter, Christopher M. King, Gregory J. Meyer, Aaron J. Kivisto, Benjamin A. Rubin & John Hunsley. (2022) Legal Admissibility of the Rorschach and R-PAS: A Review of Research, Practice, and Case Law. Journal of Personality Assessment 104:2, pages 137-161.
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Laura Parolin, Pietro De Carli & Francesca Locati. (2020) The Roberts–2: Italian Validation on a Sample of Children and Adolescents. Journal of Personality Assessment 102:3, pages 390-404.
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Hal S. Shorey. (2018) Introduction to the Special Issue on the Role of Personality Assessment in Consulting to Organizations. Journal of Personality Assessment 100:5, pages 493-497.
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Gregory J. Meyer, Nicholas J. Katko, Joni L. Mihura, Michael J. Klag & Lucy A. Meoni. (2018) The Incremental Validity of Self-Report and Performance-Based Methods for Assessing Hostility to Predict Cardiovascular Disease in Physicians. Journal of Personality Assessment 100:1, pages 68-83.
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Francesca Fantini, Aglaia Banis, Erica Dell'Acqua, Ilaria Durosini & Filippo Aschieri. (2017) Exploring Children's Induced Defensiveness to the Tell Me a Story Test (TEMAS). Journal of Personality Assessment 99:3, pages 275-285.
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Sharon Rae Jenkins. (2017) The Narrative Arc of TATs: Introduction to the JPA Special Section on Thematic Apperceptive Techniques. Journal of Personality Assessment 99:3, pages 225-237.
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Lee A. Annotti & Hedwig Teglasi. (2017) Functioning in the Real World: Using Storytelling to Improve Validity in the Assessment of Executive Functions. Journal of Personality Assessment 99:3, pages 254-264.
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Joni L. Mihura, Manali Roy & Robert A. Graceffo. (2017) Psychological Assessment Training in Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs. Journal of Personality Assessment 99:2, pages 153-164.
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Robert F. Bornstein. (2015) Personality Assessment in the Diagnostic Manuals: On Mindfulness, Multiple Methods, and Test Score Discontinuities. Journal of Personality Assessment 97:5, pages 446-455.
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Idit Katz & Rinat Cohen. (2014) Assessing autonomous motivation in students with cognitive impairment. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability 39:4, pages 323-332.
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RobertE. Erard & DonaldJ. Viglione. (2014) The Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) in Child Custody Evaluations. Journal of Child Custody 11:3, pages 159-180.
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PaulE. Panek , Sharon Rae Jenkins, Bert Hayslip$suffix/text()$suffix/text() & Amanda Kay Moske. (2013) Verbal Expressive Personality Testing With Older Adults: 25+ Years Later. Journal of Personality Assessment 95:4, pages 366-376.
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RobertF. Bornstein. (2011) From Symptom to Process: How the PDM Alters Goals and Strategies in Psychological Assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment 93:2, pages 142-150.
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MichaelD. Robinson & KathrynH. Gordon. (2011) Personality Dynamics: Insights From the Personality Social Cognitive Literature. Journal of Personality Assessment 93:2, pages 161-176.
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John Musewicz, Geoffrey Marczyk, Linda Knauss & David York. (2009) Current Assessment Practice, Personality Measurement, and Rorschach Usage by Psychologists. Journal of Personality Assessment 91:5, pages 453-461.
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George Bombel, JoniL. Mihura & GregoryJ. Meyer. (2009) An Examination of the Construct Validity of the Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment 91:3, pages 227-237.
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RobertF. Bornstein. (2009) Heisenberg, Kandinsky, and the Heteromethod Convergence Problem: Lessons From Within and Beyond Psychology. Journal of Personality Assessment 91:1, pages 1-8.
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RobertE. McGrath. (2008) The Rorschach in the Context of Performance-Based Personality Assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment 90:5, pages 465-475.
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Alex Cogswell. (2008) Explicit Rejection of an Implicit Dichotomy: Integrating Two Approaches to Assessing Dependency. Journal of Personality Assessment 90:1, pages 26-35.
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RobertF. Bornstein. (2007) Toward a Process-Based Framework for Classifying Personality Tests: Comment on Meyer and Kurtz (2006) . Journal of Personality Assessment 89:2, pages 202-207.
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OliverC. Schultheiss. (2007) A Memory-Systems Approach to the Classification of Personality Tests: Comment on Meyer and Kurtz (2006) . Journal of Personality Assessment 89:2, pages 197-201.
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