ABSTRACT Assessment of response style is a vital component of forensic assessment. However, the focus on malingering in the literature and test offerings has predictable and negative consequences: Because the label of malingering is viewed as toxic, tests designed to assess for it are often long and sacrifice sensitivity to minimize false-positive errors. Rather than focusing on diagnosing or ruling out malingering, examiners and validity test authors can focus on detecting negative response bias that could invalidate other clinical and forensically relevant data. Doing so can avoid overstepping one’s data and stigmatization, allow shorter, more cost-efficient assessments, better inform the court, reduce inherent conflicts of interest, and lessen conflict surrounding the response style issue.

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评估负面反应偏见而不是恶意的案例

摘要应对方式的评估是法医评估的重要组成部分。但是，在文献和测试产品中对恶意程序的关注会产生可预见的负面影响：由于恶意程序的标签被视为有毒，因此旨在对其进行评估的测试通常很长，并且牺牲了敏感性以最大程度地减少假阳性错误。审查员和有效性测试作者可以将精力集中在检测可能导致其他临床和法医相关数据无效的负面反应偏见上，而不必着重于诊断或排除弊端。这样做可以避免数据过高和受到污名化，可以进行更短，更具成本效益的评估，更好地向法院提供信息，减少内在的利益冲突，并减少围绕响应方式问题的冲突。