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Is the emotional Stroop paradigm sensitive to malingering? A between-groups study with professional actors and actual trauma survivors.
- Source :
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Journal of traumatic stress [J Trauma Stress] 2003 Feb; Vol. 16 (1), pp. 59-66. - Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- Six professional actors, trained by psychologists and acting coaches to feign PTSD, were covertly enrolled into a treatment outcome study for PTSD with the aim of investigating malingering. During pretreatment assessment, individuals completed an emotional Stroop task. Vocal response latencies to different classes of stimuli were examined for sensitivity to malingering. Actor response latencies were compared to those of 6 nonlitigant PTSD patients and 6 nonanxiety controls. The actor/dissimulation group was able to feign an overall slowing of response latency across stimulus types, similar to the PTSD group. However, they were unable to modulate response latency as a function of stimulus content, a pattern that characterized the PTSD group. The use of information-processing paradigms to detect dissimulation is discussed.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Diagnosis, Differential
Emotions
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Processes
Psychometrics
Reaction Time
Sensitivity and Specificity
Malingering diagnosis
Malingering psychology
Mental Status Schedule standards
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic diagnosis
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0894-9867
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of traumatic stress
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12602653
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022063412056