Paul E. Meehl

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Paul E. Meehl

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#227

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Personality Psychology

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Clinical Psychology

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#12

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Everett Meehl was an American clinical psychologist, Hathaway and Regents' Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, and past president of the American Psychological Association. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Meehl as the 74th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with Eleanor J. Gibson. Throughout his nearly 60-year career, Meehl made seminal contributions to psychology, including empirical studies and theoretical accounts of construct validity, schizophrenia etiology, psychological assessment, behavioral prediction, and philosophy of science.

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Construct validity in psychological tests. (1955) (10068)
Clinical versus actuarial judgment. (1989) (2133)
Schizotaxia, Schizotypy, Schizophrenia (1962) (1949)
Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology. (1978) (1597)
Comparative efficiency of informal (subjective, impressionistic) and formal (mechanical, algorithmic) prediction procedures: The clinical–statistical controversy. (1996) (1250)
Antecedent probability and the efficiency of psychometric signs, patterns, or cutting scores. (1955) (1204)
Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence (1996) (1073)
On a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables. (1948) (977)
Theory-Testing in Psychology and Physics: A Methodological Paradox (1967) (822)
Toward an Integrated Theory of Schizotaxia, Schizotypy, and Schizophrenia (1990) (753)
Why Summaries of Research on Psychological Theories are Often Uninterpretable (1990) (648)
Bootstraps taxometrics. Solving the classification problem in psychopathology. (1995) (642)
Clinical versus Statistical Prediction. (1955) (576)
Appraising and Amending Theories: The Strategy of Lakatosian Defense and Two Principles that Warrant It (1990) (551)
Multivariate Taxometric Procedures: Distinguishing Types from Continua (1997) (541)
Factors and Taxa, Traits and Types, Differences of Degree and Differences in Kind (1992) (511)
Taxometric analysis. I: Detecting taxonicity with two quantitative indicators using means above and below a sliding cut (MAMBAC procedure) (1994) (388)
The K factor as a suppressor variable in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. (1946) (385)
Causes and effects of my disturbing little book. (1986) (375)
Taxometric Analysis: II. Detecting Taxonicity Using Covariance of Two Quantitative Indicators in Successive Intervals of a Third Indicator (Maxcov Procedure) (1996) (338)
Psychodiagnosis: Selected Papers (1973) (331)
Hedonic capacity: some conjectures. (1975) (328)
When shall we use our heads instead of the formula (1957) (291)
Wanted—a good cook-book. (1956) (278)
Nuisance variables and the ex post facto design (1970) (266)
Schizotaxia revisited. (1989) (261)
Detection of the schizoid taxon with MMPI indicators. (1979) (254)
The dynamics of "structured" personality tests. (2000) (223)
Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction. (1955) (215)
High school yearbooks: A reply to Schwarz. (1971) (214)
On the circularity of the law of effect. (1950) (206)
The cognitive activity of the clinician. (1960) (199)
A comparison of clinicians with five statistical methods of identifying psychotic MMPI profiles. (1959) (178)
Why I Do Not Attend Case Conferences (1973) (174)
An atlas for the clinical use of the MMPI (1951) (173)
Specific Etiology and Other Forms of Strong Influence: Some Quantitative Meanings (1977) (169)
Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology (2004) (165)
Manual for use with Checklist of Schizotypic Signs (1973) (156)
Some ruminations on the validation of clinical procedures. (1959) (155)
A personality scale for social responsibility. (1952) (153)
What's in a taxon? (2004) (143)
Comparative efficiency of informal (subjective, impressionistic) and formal (mechanical, algorithmic) prediction procedures (1996) (140)
Clarifications about taxometric method (1999) (139)
The Selfish Voter Paradox and the Thrown-Away Vote Argument (1977) (129)
A personality scale for dominance. (1951) (126)
Objective configural rules for discriminating psychotic from neurotic MMPI profiles. (1960) (122)
Assessing The Legal Standard For Predictions Of Dangerousness In Sex Offender Commitment Proceedings (1997) (114)
Diagnostic taxa as open concepts: Metatheoretical and statistical questions about reliability and construct validity in the grand strategy of nosological revision. (1986) (113)
Primary and secondary hypohedonia. (2001) (111)
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: VI. The K Scale. (1948) (105)
Specific genetic etiology, psychodynamics, and therapeutic nihilism. (1972) (100)
Preliminary suggestions as to a formalization of expectancy theory. (1953) (87)
Credentialed Persons, Credentialed Knowledge (1997) (80)
A funny thing happened to us on the way to the latent entities. (1979) (79)
Multivariate taxometric procedures (1998) (78)
The path analysis controversy: a new statistical approach to strong appraisal of verisimilitude. (2002) (77)
On the Justifications for Civil Commitment (1968) (72)
Profile analysis of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in differential diagnosis. (1946) (65)
Comorbidity and taxometrics. (2006) (64)
Seer over sign: The first good example. (1965) (60)
Cliometric metatheory : the actuarial approach to empirical, history-based philosophy of science (1992) (59)
Mixed group validation: A method for determining the validity of diagnostic signs without using criterion groups. (1966) (59)
Law and the Fireside Inductions: Some Reflections of a Clinical Psychologist1, 2, (1971) (58)
A further study of latent learning in the T-maze. (1948) (53)
Detecting Latent Clinical Taxa by Fallible Quantitative Indicators Lacking an Accepted Criterion (1965) (52)
Simple regression-based procedures for taxometric investigations. (1993) (52)
Cliometric Metatheory: II. Criteria Scientists Use in Theory Appraisal and why it is Rational to do so (2002) (50)
Genetic theories and the validation of psychiatric diagnoses: implications for the study of children of schizophrenics. (1977) (49)
Configural scoring. (1950) (49)
Subjectivity in psychoanalytic inference: the nagging persistence of Wilhelm Fliess's Achensee question (1983) (49)
Philosophy of Science: Help or Hindrance? (1993) (48)
Some technical and axiological problems in the therapeutic handling of religious and valuational material. (1959) (47)
Detection Of Biological Sex: An Empirical Test Of Cluster Methods. (1980) (46)
The concept of emergence (1956) (44)
Modern learning theory : a critical analysis of five examples (1954) (40)
Some methodological reflections on the difficulties of psychoanalytic research. (1973) (37)
Using Meta‐Scientific Studies to Clarify or Resolve Questions in the Philosophy and History of Science (2002) (37)
The individual and his religion. (1950) (34)
Cognitive learning in the absence of competition of incentives. (1949) (32)
A Simple Algebraic Development of Horst's Suppressor Variables (1945) (31)
Selected philosophical and methodological papers (1991) (30)
A most peculiar paradox (1950) (30)
Some methodological comments concerning expectancy theory. (1951) (28)
Using Scientific Methods to Resolve Questions in the History and Philosophy of Science: Some Illustrations (1992) (28)
Law and the fireside inductions (with postscript): Some reflections of a clinical psychologist (1989) (27)
Edward C. Tolman. (1954) (27)
Personality and psychopathology (1991) (27)
Testing a single dominant gene theory without an accepted criterion variable (1978) (26)
"Detecting Latent Clinical Taxa, II: A Simplified Procedure, Some Additional Hitmax Cut Locators, A Single-Indicator Method, and Miscellaneous Theorems." (1968) (26)
The miracle argument for realism: An important lesson to be learned by generalizing from carrier's counter-examples (1992) (23)
Second-order relevance. (1972) (20)
Cliometric Metatheory III: Peircean Consensus, Verisimilitude and Asymptotic Method (2004) (19)
Psychology and The Criminal Law (1970) (19)
Symposium on Clinical and Statistical Prediction: The Tie That Binds. (1956) (17)
Risky tests, verisimilitude, and path analysis (2002) (17)
Compatibility of science and ESP. (1956) (17)
Ethical and political aspects of applied psychology. (1947) (17)
Drive conditioning as a factor in latent learning. (1953) (16)
Heuristics and Biases: Clinical versus Actuarial Judgment (2002) (16)
On the elimination of cul entries without obvious reinforcement. (1951) (16)
Matters of public interest (1991) (15)
"Detecting Latent Clinical Taxa, V: A Monte Carlo Study of the Maximum Covariance Method and Associated Consistency Tests" (1973) (15)
THE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY. (1964) (14)
Consistency Tests in Estimating the Completeness of the Fossil Record: A Neo-Popperian Approach to Statistical Paleontology (1983) (13)
THEORY AND PRACTICE: REFLECTIONS OF AN ACADEMIC CLINICIAN 1 (1987) (13)
A failure to find the Blodgett effect, and some secondary observations on drive conditioning. (1951) (13)
Needs (Murray, 1938) and State-Variables (Skinner, 1938) (1992) (13)
The origins of some of my conjectures concerning schizophrenia. (1993) (12)
“ Hedonic Capacity ” Ten Years Later : Some Clarifications (2003) (11)
How to Weight Scientists' Probabilities Is Not a Big Problem: Comment on Barnes (1999) (10)
"Detecting Latent Clinical Taxa, IV: An Empirical Study of the Maximum Covariance Method and the Normal Minimum Chi-Square Method Using Three MMPI Keys to Identify the Sexes" (1973) (10)
Structured and Projective Tests: Some Common Problems in Validation (1959) (9)
An examination of the treatment of stimulus patterning in Professor Hull's Principles of Behavior. (1945) (9)
Identifying Latent Clinical Taxa, III: An Empirical Trial of the Normal Single-indicator Method, Using MMPI Scale 5 to Identify the Sexes (1969) (9)
WANTED-A GOOD COOKBOOK (2005) (9)
CLIOMETRIC METATHEORY: II. CRITERIA SCIENTISTS USE IN THEORY APPRAISAL AND WHY IT IS RATIONAL TO DO SO (Monograph Supplement 1-V91) (2002) (8)
CONSTRUCT VALIDITY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS1 (2004) (7)
Psychological determinism and human rationality: a psychologist's reactions to Professor Karl Popper's "Of clouds and clocks" (1970) (7)
Psychologists' Opinions as to the Effects of Holding Five of Ellis' "Irrational Ideas" (1966) (7)
Detecting Latent Clinical Taxa, VI: Analytical Development and Empirical Trials of the Consistency Hurdles Theory (1974) (7)
The Hunt-Minnesota Test for Organic Brain Damage in cases of functional depression. (1946) (6)
The path analysis controversy (2002) (5)
The minnesota multiphasic personality inventory; the K scale. (1948) (5)
Detecting Latent Clinical Taxa, VII: Maximum Likelihood Solution and Empirical and Artificial Data Trials of the Multi-indicator Multi-taxonomic Class Normal Theory (1974) (5)
Detecting Latent Clinical Taxa, VIII: A Preliminary Study in the Detection of the Schizoid Taxon Using MMPI Items as Indicators (1974) (4)
Corroboration and Verisimilitude: Against Lakatos's "Sheer Leap of Faith (2004) (4)
Radical behaviorism and mental events: Four methodological queries (1984) (4)
Empirical comparisons of clinical and actuarial prediction. (1954) (4)
Problems in the actuarial characterization of a person (1956) (4)
Psychology of the Scientist: LXXVIII. Relevance of a Scientist's Ideology in Communal Recognition of Scientific Merit (1998) (4)
If Freud Could Define Psychoanalysis, Why Can't ABPP Do It? (1993) (4)
The Virtues of M ' Naghten (4)
Detecting Latent Clinical Taxa, IX: A Monte Carlo Method for Testing Taxometric Theories (1974) (3)
The dynamics of "structured" personality tests. 1945. (2000) (3)
The dynamics of “structured” personality tests (1945) (3)
Precognitive Telepathy I: On The Possibility of Distinguishing it Experimentally from Psychokinesis (1978) (3)
General remarks on quantification of clinical material. (1954) (3)
Symposium on clinical and statistical prediction: Comment on the McArthur and Tiedman papers. (1956) (2)
In Reply: Clinical and Actuarial Judgment (1990) (2)
A final word: Unavoidability of statistics. (1954) (2)
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. (2010) (2)
Precognitive Telepathy II: Some Neurophysiological Conjectures and Metaphysical Speculations (1978) (2)
The special powers of the clinician. (1954) (2)
Using Meta-Scientific Studies to Clarify (2002) (1)
Simple Regression-Based Procedures for Taxometric Investigations 1 ,2 (1993) (1)
Logic for the Clinician. (1961) (1)
Prospectives for research on schizophrenia. II. Clinical issues. Classical symptoms of schizophrenia. (1972) (1)
Difficulties with Economic Models of Voter Behavior (1976) (1)
, Sir Ronald , and the Slow Progress of Soft Ps (2003) (1)
Contributions to the Problem of Evaluating Autonomic Response Data: I (1966) (1)
Some preliminary distinctions. (1954) (1)
Psychology: Does Our Heterogeneous Subject Matter Have Any Unity? (2004) (1)
The problem of the logical reconstruction of clinical activity. (1954) (1)
Response : Clinical and Actuarial Judgment (1990) (0)
Thinking Clearly aboutPsychology Volume 1 : Matters of Public Interest (1998) (0)
Hard-Hearted Reality (1999) (0)
CONSTRUCT VALIDI1'Y IN PSYCI-IOLOGICAL TESTS (1955) (0)
Review of Mental examiner's handbook. (1946) (0)
Review of Prediction of the adjustment and academic performance of college students by a modification of the Rorschach method. (1946) (0)
Maximum Likelihood Solution and Empirical and Artificial Data Trials of the Multi-indicator Multi-taxonomic Class Normal Theory 1 (2007) (0)
Reports from the Research Laboratories (1968) (0)
The rationality of inference from class membership. (1954) (0)
American Psychological Association Oral Histories: Interview with Paul Meehl: (513152014-001) (2000) (0)
Remarks on clinical intuition. (1954) (0)
Psychiatry: Not Just Drugs, Analysis (1981) (0)
Introduction to the Szondi Test (1950) (0)
Principles of dynamic psychiatry. (1947) (0)
The theoretical argument of T. R. Sarbin. (1954) (0)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
List of editorial consultants to the articles in volume 8, numbers 3/4 (1984) (0)

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