Foundations of psychological assessment: implications for cognitive assessment in clinical science

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Research was conducted to promote improvement in psychological assessment within the broader context of psychology's efforts to build and test efficient scientific theories. To drive home certain fundamental, conceptual, methodological and epistemological issues, examples at the cutting edge of psychological research in clinical and cognitive science were cited. The methodological and conceptual integration of cognitive and clinical neuroscience in psychology is advocated.

Psychological tests, Cognitive psychology

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The increased construct validity and clinical utility of assessing relationship quality using separate positive and negative dimensions

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The Positive and Negative Quality in Marriage Scale (PANQIMS), which measures separate positive and negative dimensions for marital quality is expanded to study the relationship quality and dyadic behavior of engaged couples. The expanded study results show that a two-dimensional approach to measure self-evaluations of relationship quality is more informative than a one-dimensional approach during the engagement period.

Psychological aspects, Measurement, Husband and wife, Husband-wife relations, Marriage, Self-evaluation, Self evaluation

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Deconstructing, reconstructing, preserving Paul E. Meehl's legacy of construct validity

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The cause-and-effect of human behavior that posit physically issues of validity of hypothetical constructs, problems of measurement in psychoanalytic theory construction, and in trait theory are examined. Significant and continued interest generated by various scientific studies and central importance of Paul E. Meehl's thinking is described.

Science, Philosophy of science, Leadership

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