Specificity rates for non-clinical, bilingual, Mexican Americans on three popular performance validity measuresFootnote^*

* This study formed the basis of a thesis submitted by the third author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Arts degree in experimental psychology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

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