Malingered psychopathology has the potential to be a costly social problem and there is a need for studies that compare the malingering detection capabilities of tests of psychopathology. This study investigated the capacity of two measures to detect simulated psychopathology. Forty-one first-year psychology students were randomly allocated to experimental groups that included malingering and c...

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a function of cardiac autonomic tone that is widely used in both clinical and animal studies. In preclinical studies, HRV measures are frequently derived using the arterial pulse waveform from an implanted pressure telemetry device, termed pulse rate variability (PRV), instead of the electrocardiogram signal in accordance with clinical guidelines. The acceptabili...

In highly repetitive strings, like collections of genomes from the same species, distinct measures of repetition all grow sublinearly in the length of the text, and indexes targeted to such strings typically depend only on one of these measures. We describe two data structures whose size depends on multiple measures of repetition at once, and that provide competitive tradeoffs between the time ...

Hedonic techniques were developed to control for quality differences across goods and over time in order to construct constant-quality aggregate price measures. When the available data are a panel of high-frequency data on models whose characteristics are constant over time, matched-model price indexes can also be used to obtain constantquality price measures. We show this by demonstrating that...

Systems involving many variables are important in population and quantitative genetics, for example, in multi-trait prediction of breeding values and in exploration of multi-locus associations. We studied departures of the joint distribution of sets of genetic variables from independence. New measures of association based on notions of statistical distance between distributions are presented. T...

This article summarizes the differences between self-reported and non-self-reported methods for measuring emotions. It also provides an overview of previous studies that examine indexes related to these methods, mainly in field affective trait research. Finally, discusses application explicit implicit measures. The main arguments this are as follows: (1) There is no superiority or inferiority m...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether simple indexes of insulin sensitivity based on a fasting blood sample may be reliable measures of insulin sensitivity in combined kidney-pancreas- transplanted patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Estimates of insulin sensitivity based on fasting plasma glucose, insulin (homeostasis model assessment of insulin sensitivity [HOMA-IS], Quantitative Insulin Sensiti...

Drawing on evolutionary social psychology, Pettijohn and Tesser’s (1999) Environmental Security Hypothesis (ESH) proposes that during threatening times, people seek mates with more mature features. Pettijohn and Jungeberg (2004) found that Playboy Playmates of the Year (PMOYs), who are determined partly by popularity, exhibited more mature features (older, taller, heavier, larger waist-to-hip r...