There is a body of evidence ( Nelson, Sweet, & Heilbronner, 2007 Gervais, Ben-Porath, Wygant, & Green, 2008 Whitney, Davis, Shepard, & Herman 2008 Gervais, Ben-Porath, Wygant, Green, & Sellbom, 2010 Nelson, Hoelzle, Sweet, Arbisi, & Demakis, 2010 Jones & Ingram, 2011 Youngjohn, Wershba, Stevenson, Sturgeon, & Thomas, 2011 Peck et al., 2013) that demonstrates Symptom Validity Tests (SVTs) specifically designed to assess the validity or credibility of self-reported cognitive and/or somatic symptoms perform better in a variety of clinical and forensic settings than the validity scales that assess over-reporting of emotional distress or psychopathology on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality-2 (MMPI-2 Butcher, Dahlstrom. MMPI-2, MMPI-2-R, Malingering, Military, Symptom validity Introduction
