This collection brings together the major influential publications in psychological assessment over the last 20-30 years to serve as an important reference resource for individuals and institutions interested in psychological assessment research and application. The editors have carefully selected the inclusions to represent a mix of older classics, still very relevant today, and highly influential up-to-date recent work. The articles include recent influential reviews to introduce an area; historical and classical material; and leading-edge recent work which may challenge accepted practice giving readers a feel for the dynamism of the field.

The collection portrays the original sources that have most significantly shaped psychological assessment research in recent years, some critical reviews, as well as including the very best research articles outlining key recent developments, thereby providing an essential set of core readings for the field.

Volume One: Intelligence Assessment

Volume Two: Personality Assessment

Volume Three: Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment

Volume Four: Clinical and Applied Psychological Assessment

VOLUME ONE: INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT
Intelligence - Linda Gottfredson and Donald Saklofske
Foundations and Issues in Assessment
Structural Extensions of a Hierarchical View on Human Cognitive Abilities - Lazar Stankov
Just One G - Wendy Johnson et al
Consistent Results from Three Test Batteries
A CHC Theory-Based Analysis of Age Differences on Cognitive Abilities and Academic Skills at Ages 22 to 90 Years - Alan Kaufman, Cheryl Johnson and Xin Liu
Selective Review of Cognitive Aging - Timothy Salthouse
Intelligence, Personality and Interests - Phillip Ackerman and Eric Heggestad
Evidence for Overlapping Traits
What IQ Tests Test - Ken Richardson
A Culture-Free Intelligence Test I - Raymond Cattell
Raven¿s Test Performance of Sub-Saharan Africans - Jelte Wicherts
Average Performance, Psychometric Properties and the Flynn Effect
Independent Examination of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) - Nicholas Benson, David Hulac and John Kranzler
What Does the WAIS-IV Measure?
American IQ Gains from 1932 to 2002 - James Flynn and Lawrence Weiss
The WISC Subtests and Educational Progress
In What Way Are Apples and Oranges Alike? A Critique of Flynn¿s Interpretation of the Flynn Effect - Alan Kaufman
Views of Chinese Psychologists toward Intelligence - Gonggu Yan, Donald Saklofse and Thomas Oakland
The Development and Use of Intelligence Tests in China - Louise Higgins and Gao Xiang
A Decade of Progress
Does Emotional Intelligence Meet Traditional Standards for an Intelligence? Some New Data and Conclusions - Richard Roberts, Moshe Zeidner and Gerald Matthews
Intelligence - Ulric Neisser et al
Known and Unknowns
VOLUME TWO: PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
Towards a Validation of Multiple Features in the Assessment of Emotions - Suzanne Skiffington, Ephrem Fernandez and Ken McFarland
Using Common Psychological Terms to Describe Other People - Patrick Mollaret
From Lexical Hypothesis to Polysemous Conception
Simplifying the Cattellian Psychometric Model - Gregory Boyle
Contribution of Cattellian Personality Instruments - Gregory Boyle and Keith Barton
Extraversion - Introversion - Don Saklofske et al
Personality and Performance - Gerald Matthews
Cognitive Processes and Models
Traits across Cultures - Brad Piekkola
A Neo-Allportian Perspective
Patterns of Mean-Level Change in Personality Traits across the Life Course - Brent Roberts, Kate Walton and Wolfgang Viechtbauer
A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies
Age Changes in Personality and Their Origins - Paul Costa Jr and Robert McCrae
Comment on Roberts, Walton and Viechtbauer (2006)
Personality Traits Change in Adulthood - Brent Roberts, Kate Walton and Wolfgang Viechtbauer
Reply to Costa and McCrae (2006)
Patterns of Continuity - R. Chris Fraley and Brent Roberts
A Dynamic Model for Conceptualizing the Stability of Individual Differences in Psychological Constructs across the Life Course
Investigations of Temperament at Three to Seven Years - Mary Rothbart et al
The Children¿s Behavior Questionnaire
Cross-Cultural Personality Assessment - Fons van de Vijver and Dianne van Hemert
Behavioral Genetic Studies of Personality - Andrew Johnson, Philip Vernon and Amanda Feiler
An Introduction and Review of the Results of 50+ Years of Research
Psychophysiological Window on Peronality - John Furedy
Pragmatic and Philosophical Considerations
Psychophysiological Measurements of Personality - Eco de Geus and David Neumann
Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality and Social Cognition - Edward Vul et al
Personality Disorders and the DSM - Mary Malik, Brynne Johannsen and Larry Beutler
A Critical Review
Validity of Rorschach Inkblot Scores for Discriminating Psychopaths from Non-Psychopaths in Forensic Populations - James Wood et al
A Meta-Analysis
VOLUME THREE: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Factor Structure of the Reitan-Indiana Neuropsychological Battery for Children - Ronald Livingston et al
Scientific Investigation of Brain-Behavior Relationships Using the Halstead-Reitan Battery - James Sweeney et al
Executive Function and the Frontal Lobes - Julie Alvarez and Eugene Emory
A Meta-Analytic Review
Identification of Aphasia Post-Stroke - Katherine Salter et al
A Review of Screening Assessment Tools
Advanced Interpretation of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery with Older Adults - Brian Brooks, Grant Iverson and Travis White
Base Rate Analyses, Discrepancy Scores and Interpreting Change
Assessment Practices of Clinical Neuropsychologists in the United States and Canada - Laura Rabin, William Barr and Leslie Burton
A Survey of INS, NAN and APA Division 40 Members
The Halstead Category Test - James Choca et al
A 50-Year Perspective
Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment - Gregory Boyle
Abbreviating the Halstead Test of Brain Dysfunction
Use of the Booklet Category Test to Assess Abstract Concept Formation in Schizophrenic Disorders - Stanley Steindl and Gregory Boyle
Ecological Assessment of Executive Functions in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer¿s Disease - Ana Espinosa et al
Army Research Needs for Automated Neuropsychological Tests - Karl Friedl et al
Monitoring Soldier Health and Performance Status
In Defense of the Halstead Reitan Battery - Elbert Russell
A Critique of Lezak¿s Review
Comparative Diagnostic Accuracy of the Halstead-Reitan and Standardized Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Batteries in a Mixed Psychiatric and Brain-Damaged Population - Robert Kane et al
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Neuropsychological Test Construction - H. Allison Bender, Adolfo Martín García and William Barr
Perspectives from Translation Studies
Estimating Pre-Morbid General Cognitive Functioning for Children and Adolescents Using the American Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Fourth Edition - Mike Schoenberg et al
Demographic and Current Performance Approaches
Identifying and Monitoring Cognitive Deficits in Clinical Populations Using Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM) Tests - Robert Kane et al
Cross-Cultural Application of the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) - May-Li Lim et al
Performances of Elderly Chinese Singaporeans
A Study of Performance on Tests from the CANTAB Battery Sensitive to Frontal Lobe Dysfunction in a Large Sample of Normal Volunteers - Trevor Robbins et al
Implications for Theories of Executive Functioning and Cognitive Aging
VOLUME FOUR: APPLIED ASSESSMENT
Dimensions of Cultural Differences - Lazar Stankov and Jihyun Lee
Pancultural, ETIC/EMIC and Ecological Approaches
Contemporary Militant Extremism - Lazar Stankov et al
A Linguistic Approach to Scale Development
A Survey of Psychological Test Use Patterns among Forensic Psychologists - Robert Archer et al
Factorial Validity and Measurement Invariance of the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples - Reitske Meganck et al
Psychological Aspects of Natural Language Use - James Pennebaker, Matthias Mehl and Kate Niederhoffer
Our Words, Our Selves
A Comprehensive Model for Assessing the Unique Characteristics of Children with Autism - Sharon Bradley-Johnson et al
Anxiety, Depression and Anger: Core Components of Negative Affect in Medical Populations - Ephrem Fernandez and Robert D. Kerns
Classification and Calibration by Pain Patients
Factor Structure of the Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ) - Gregory Boyle
Exploratory and Lisrel Analysis
Does Item Homogeneity Indicate Internal Consistency or Item Redundancy in Psychometric Scales? - Gregory Boyle
Method of Test Administration as a Factor in Test Validity - R. Grossarth-Maticek, H.J. Eysenck and Gregory Boyle
The Use of a Personality Questionnaire in the Prediction of Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease
Fundamental Dimensions of Subjective State in Performance Settings - Gerald Matthews et al
Task Engagement, Distress and Worry
A Comparative Analysis of MMPI-2 Malingering Detection Models among Inmates - Jarrod Steffan et al
Measuring Motivation Multidimensionally - Larry Bernard et al
Development of the Assessment of Individual Motives - Questionnaire (AIM-Q)
Personality and Absenteeism - Denizs Ones, Chockalingam Viswesvaran and Frank Schmidt
A Meta-Analysis of Integrity Tests
Measurement Invariance and Differential Item Functioning of the Bar-on EQ-i - Gina Ekermans et al
S measure over Canadian, Scottish, South African and Australian Samples
Personality Correlates of Loving Styles among Chinese Students in Hong Kong - Wendy Wan, Chung-Leung Lukb and Julian Lai
Assessing Violence Risk and Psychopathy in Juvenile and Adult Offenders - Jodi Viljoen, Kaitlyn McLachlan and Gina Vincent
A Survey of Clinical Practices
Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Large-Scale Testing - Sara Bolt and Jim Ysseldyke
A Comparison of Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Identified across Disability Types
Validity in Psychological Testing and Scientific Realism - S. Brian Hood
Measurement Theory, Psychology and the Revolution That Cannot Happen - G nter Trendler