All Publications of Paul E. Meehl

186. Meehl, P. E. (1997/2018). The Seven Sacred Cows of Academia. Unpublished manuscript, L.J. Yonce, Ed.

185. Meehl, P. E. (2006). The power of quantitative thinking. In N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger (Eds.), A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 433-444). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

184. Meehl, P. E. (2006). A Paul Meehl Rreader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology. (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [This book may be ordered from Routledge] View Contents and Preface

183. Peterson, D. R. (2005) Twelve years of correspondence with Paul Meehl: Tough notes from a gentle genius. Erlbaum. [This book may be ordered from Routledge]

182. Meehl,P. E. (2004) Cliometric metatheory III: Peircean consensus, verisimilitude, and asymptotic method. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55, 615-643.

181. Meehl, P. E. (2004) What's in a taxon? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, pp. 39-43.

180. Meehl, P. E. (2002) Cliometric metatheory II: Criteria scientists use in theory appraisal and why it is rational to do so. Psychological Reports, 91, 339-404.

179. Faust, D., & Meehl, P. E. (2002) Using meta-scientific studies to clarify or resolve questions in the philosophy and history of science. Philosophy of Science, 69, S185-S196.

178. Waller, N. G., & Meehl, P. E. (2002) Risky tests, verisimilitude, and path analysis. Psychological Methods, 7, 323-337.

177. Meehl, P. E., & Waller, N. G. (2002) The path analysis controversy: A new statistical approach to strong appraisal of verisimilitude. Psychological Methods, 7, 283-300.
Reprinted: 2010, in Stephen Turner, Causality (Volume 4). Newbury Park, CA: Sage (Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series).

176. --- (2001) Comorbidity and taxometrics. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 8, 507-519.

175. --- (2001) Primary and secondary hypohedonia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 188-193.

174. --- (1999) Clarifications about taxometric method. Journal of Applied and Preventive Psychology, 8, 165-174.
Reprinted: 2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 389-404). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

173. --- (1999) How to weight scientists' probabilities is not a big problem: Comment on Barnes. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 50, 283-295.

172. --- (1998) Relevance of a scientist's ideology in communal recognition of scientific merit. Psychological Reports, 83, 1123-1144.

171. Janus, E., & Meehl, P. E. (1997) Assessing the legal standard for predictions of dangerousness in sex offender commitment proceedings. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 3, 33-64.

170. Waller, N. G., & Meehl, P. E. (1998) Multivariate taxometric procedures: Distinguishing types from continua. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. [Available from Sage Publications]

169. --- (1997) The problem is epistemology, not statistics: Replace significance tests by confidence intervals and quantify accuracy of risky numerical predictions. In L. L. Harlow, S. A. Mulaik, & J.H. Steiger (Eds.), What if there were no significance tests? (pp. 393-425). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

168. --- (1997) Credentialed persons, credentialed knowledge. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 4, 91-98.

167. Grove, W. M., & Meehl, P. E. (1996) Comparative efficiency of informal (subjective, impressionistic) and formal (mechanical, algorithmic) prediction procedures: The clinical-statistical controversy. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2, 293-323.
Reprinted: 2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 291-320). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

166. --- (1996) MAXCOV pseudotaxonicity. American Psychologist, 51, 1184-1186. [Reply to Miller]

165. Meehl, P. E., & Yonce, L. J. (1996) Taxometric analysis: II. Detecting taxonicity using covariance of two quantitative indicators in successive intervals of a third indicator (MAXCOV procedure). Psychological Reports, 78, 1091-1227. (This large monograph may also been viewed as 165 MAXCOV_text_only and 165 MAXCOV_appendices. See both links for the complete monograph.)

164. --- (1995) [Psychoanalysis is not yet a science: Comment on Shevrin.] Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 43, 1015-1023.

163. --- (1995) Extension of the MAXCOV-HITMAX taxometric procedure to situations of sizeable nuisance covariance. In D. Lubinski and R. V. Dawis (Eds.), Assessing individual differences in human behavior: New concepts, methods, and findings (pp. 81-92). Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black.

162. --- (1995) Bootstraps taxometrics: Solving the classification problem in psychopathology. American Psychologist, 50, 266-275.
Reprinted: 2006 in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 371-387). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

161. --- (1995) Utiles, hedons, and the mind-body problem, or, who's afraid of Vilfredo? In P. E. Shrout & S. Fiske (Eds.), Personality research, methods, and theory: A Festschrift for Donald Fiske (pp. 45-66). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

160. Meehl, P. E., & Yonce, L. J. (1994) Taxometric analysis: I. Detecting taxonicity with two quantitative indicators using means above and below a sliding cut (MAMBAC procedure). Psychological Reports, 74, 1059-1274.  (This large monograph may also been viewed as 160_MAMBAC_text_only and 160_MAMBAC_appendices. See both links for the complete monograph.)

159. Grove, W. M., & Meehl, P. E. (1993) Simple regression-based procedures for taxometric investigations. Psychological Reports, 73, 707-737.

158. --- (1993) If Freud could define psychoanalysis, why can't ABPP? Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 16, 299-326.

157. --- (1993) Philosophy of science: Help or hindrance? Psychological Reports, 72, 707-733.
Reprinted: 2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 411-431). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

156. --- (1993) The origins of some of my conjectures concerning schizophrenia. In L. J. Chapman, J. P. Chapman, & D. C. Fowles (Eds.), Progress in experimental personality and psychopathology research (pp. 1-10). New York: Springer.

155. Dawes, R. M., Faust, D., & Meehl, P. E. (1993) Statistical prediction versus clinical prediction: Improving what works. In G. Keren & C. Lewis (Eds.), A handbook for data analysis in the behavioral sciences: Methodological issues (pp. 351-367). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

154. --- (1992) Cliometric metatheory: The actuarial approach to empirical, history-based philosophy of science. Psychological Reports, 71, 339-467.

153. --- (1992) The Miracle Argument for realism: An important lesson to be learned by generalizing from Carrier's counter-examples. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 23, 267-282.

152. Faust, D., & Meehl, P. E. (1992) Using scientific methods to resolve enduring questions within the history and philosophy of science: Some illustrations. Behavior Therapy, 23, 195-211.

151. --- (1992) Needs (Murray, 1938) and state-variables (Skinner, 1938). Psychological Reports, 70, 407- 450.

150. --- (1992) Factors and taxa, traits and types, differences of degree and differences in kind. Journal of Personality, 60, 117-174. [Additional remarks by Meehl replying to a memo from L. R. Goldberg]

Reprinted: 2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 331-370). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

149. --- (1993). Four queries about factor reality. History and Philosophy of Psychology Bulletin, 5(No. 2), 4- 5. [1993 is correct publication year]

148. --- (1991). Selected philosophical and methodological papers (C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Available from the University of Minnesota Press]

147. --- (1990). Appraising and amending theories: The strategy of Lakatosian defense and two principles that warrant using it. Psychological Inquiry, 1, 108-141, 173-180.

Reprinted: 2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 91-167). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

146. --- (1990). Corroboration and verisimilitude: Against Lakatos' "sheer leap of faith" (Working Paper, MCPS-90-01). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Center for Philosophy of Science.

145. --- (1990). Toward an integrated theory of schizotaxia, schizotypy, and schizophrenia. Journal of Personality Disorders, 4, 1-99.

144. --- (1990). Why summaries of research on psychological theories are often uninterpretable. Psychological Reports, 66, 195-244.
Also in R. E. Snow & D. Wiley (Eds.), Improving Inquiry in social science: A volume in honor of Lee J. Cronbach (pp. 13-59). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

Reprinted: 2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 445-486). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

143. --- (1990). Schizotaxia as an open concept. In A. I. Rabin, R. Zucker, R. Emmons, & S. Frank (Eds.), Studying persons and lives (pp. 248-303). New York: Springer.

142. --- (1989). Psychological determinism or chance: Configural cerebral autoselection as a tertium quid. In M. L. Maxwell & C. W. Savage (Eds.), Science, mind, and psychology: Essays in honor of Grover Maxwell (pp. 211-255). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 136-168; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

141. --- (1989). Law and the fireside inductions (with Postscript): Some reflections of a clinical psychologist. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 7, 521-550.

(Original publication without Postscript, 1971, see #089.)
Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 440-480; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

140. --- (1989). Schizotaxia revisited. Archives of General Psychiatry, 46, 935-944.

139. --- (1989). Autobiography. In G. Lindzey (Ed.), History of psychology in autobiography, Vol. VIII (pp. 337-389). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (version including initial dictation)

138. Dawes, R. M., Faust, D., & Meehl, P. E. (1989). Clinical versus actuarial judgment. Science, 243, 1668- 1674.

Reprinted: 2002, in T. Gilovich, D. Griffin, & D. Kahneman (Eds.), Heuristics and biases: The psychology of intuitive judgment (pp. 716-729). New York: Cambridge University Press.

137. --- (1988). Foreword. In D. N. Wiener, Albert Ellis, passionate skeptic. New York: Praeger.

136. --- (1987). 'Hedonic capacity' ten years later: Some clarifications. In D. C. Clark & J. Fawcett (Eds.), Anhedonia and affect deficit states (pp. 47-50). New York: PMA Publishing.

135. --- (1987). Theory and practice: Reflections of an academic clinician. In E. F. Bourg, R. J. Bent, J. E. Callan, N. F. Jones, J. McHolland & G. Stricker (Eds.), Standards and evaluation in the education and training of professional psychologists (pp. 7-23). Norman, OK: Transcript Press.

134. --- (1987). Foreword. In J. N. Butcher (Ed.), Computerized psychological assessment. New York: Basic Books, Inc.

133. Dahlstrom, W. G., Meehl, P. E., & Schofield, W. (1986). Starke Rosecrans Hathaway. American Psychologist, 41, 834-835.

132. --- (1986). Causes and effects of my disturbing little book. Journal of Personality Assessment, 50, 370- 375.

131. --- (1986). Psychology: Does our heterogeneous subject matter have any unity? Minnesota Psychologist, 35(Summer), 3-9.

130. --- (1986). Diagnostic taxa as open concepts: Metatheoretical and statistical questions about reliability and construct validity in the grand strategy of nosological revision. In T. Millon & G. L. Klerman (Eds.), Contemporary directions in psychopathology (pp. 215-231). New York: Guilford Press.

Reprinted: 2010, in T. Millon, R. F. Krueger, & E. Simonsen (Eds.), Contemporary directions in psychopathology: Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11 (pp. 174-186). New York: Guilford Press.

129. --- (1986). Trait language and behaviorese. In T. Thompson & M. D. Zeiler (Eds.), Analysis and integration of behavioral units (pp. 315-334). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

128. --- (1986). What social scientists don't understand. In D. W. Fiske & R. A. Shweder (Eds.), Metatheory in social science: Pluralisms and subjectivities (pp. 315-338). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

127. --- (1984). Radical behaviorism and mental events: Four methodological queries. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 563-564.

Reprinted: 1988, in A. C. Catania and S. Harnad (Eds.), The selection of behavior: The operant behaviorism of B. F. Skinner: Comments and consequences (pp. 192-193). New York: Cambridge University Press.

126. --- (1984). Foreword. In D. Faust, The limits of scientific reasoning. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

125. --- (1983). Consistency tests in estimating the completeness of the fossil record: A neo-Popperian approach to statistical paleontology. In J. Earman (Ed.), Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science: Vol. X, Testing scientific theories (pp. 413-473). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

124. --- (1983). Subjectivity in psychoanalytic inference: The nagging persistence of Wilhelm Fliess's Achensee question. In J. Earman (Ed.), Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science: Vol. X, Testing scientific theories (pp. 349-411). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 284-337; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

1994, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 17, 3-82.

123. --- (1983). The insanity defense. Minnesota Psychologist, 32 (Summer), 11-17.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 481-496; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

122. Meehl, P. E., & Golden, R. (1982). Taxometric methods. In P. Kendall & J. Butcher (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in clinical psychology (pp. 127-181). New York: Wiley.

121. --- (1981). Comment on Ellis's reply. Rational Living, 16, 41-42.

120. --- (1981). Ethical criticism in value clarification: Correcting cognitive errors within the client's-not the therapist's-framework. Rational Living, 16, 3-9.

119. Golden, R., & Meehl, P. E. (1980). Detection of biological sex: An empirical test of cluster methods. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 15, 475-496.

118. --- (1979). A funny thing happened to us on the way to the latent entities. Journal of Personality Assessment, 43, 563-581.

117. Golden, R., & Meehl, P. E. (1979). Detection of the schizoid taxon with MMPI indicators. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 88, 217-233.

116. --- (1978). Precognitive telepathy II: Some neurophysiological conjectures and metaphysical speculations. NOÛS, 12, 371-395.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 526-544; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

115. --- (1978). Precognitive telepathy I: On the possibility of distinguishing it experimentally from psychokinesis. NOÛS, 12, 235-266.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 500-525; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

114. Malmquist, C. P., & Meehl, P. E.(1978). Barabbas: A study in guilt-ridden homicide. The International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 5, 149-174.

113. --- (1978). Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 806-834.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 1-43; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

2004, Applied & Preventive Psychology, 11, 1-22.

2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 57-90). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

112. Golden, R., & Meehl, P. E. (1978). Testing a single dominant gene theory without an accepted criterion variable. Annals of Human Genetics London, 41, 507-514.

111. Hanson, D. R., Gottesman, I. I., & Meehl, P. E. (1977). Genetic theories and the validation of psychiatric diagnoses: Implications for the study of children of schizophrenics. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 86, 575-588.

110. --- (1977). The selfish voter paradox and the thrown-away vote argument. American Political Science Review, 71, 11-30.

109. --- (1977). Specific etiology and other forms of strong influence: Some quantitative meanings. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2, 33-53.

Reprinted: 2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 175-191). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006.

108. --- (1976). Difficulties with economic models of voter behavior (Report No. PR-76-1). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

107. --- (1975). Control and countercontrol: A panel discussion. In T. Thompson & W. S. Dockens (Eds.), Applications of behavior modification (pp. 509-521). New York: Academic Press.

106. --- (1975). Hedonic capacity: Some conjectures. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 39, 295-307.

Reprinted: 1987, in D. C. Clark & J. Fawcett (Eds.), Anhedonia and affect deficit states (pp. 33-45). New York: PMA Publishing.

105. --- (1974/75). Genes and the unchangeable core. VOICES: The art and science of psychotherapy,10, 25- 35.

104. Golden, R., Tyan, S., & Meehl, P. E. (1974). Detecting latent clinical taxa, IX: A Monte Carlo method for testing taxometric theories (Report No. PR-74-7). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry. [Appendix B is very large; you may also view Text only or Appendices only.]

103. Golden, R., & Meehl, P. E. (1974). Detecting latent clinical taxa, VIII: A preliminary study in the detection of the schizoid taxon using MMPI items as indicators (Report No. PR-74-6). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

102. Golden, R., Tyan, S., & Meehl, P. E. (1974). Detecting latent clinical taxa, VII: Maximum likelihood solution and empirical and artificial data trials of the multi-indicator multi-taxonomic class normal theory (Report No. PR-74-5). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

101. Golden, R., Tyan, S., & Meehl, P. E. (1974). Detecting latent clinical taxa, VI: Analytical development and empirical trials of the consistency hurdles theory (Report No. PR-74-4). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

100. Feigl, H. & Meehl, P. E. (1974). The determinism-freedom and mind-body problems. In P. A. Schilpp (Ed.), The philosophy of Karl Popper (pp. 520-559). LaSalle, IL: Open Court.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 97-135; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

099. --- (1973). Why I do not attend case conferences. In #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 225- 302). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

098. --- (1973). MAXCOV-HITMAX: A taxonomic search method for loose genetic syndromes. In #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 200-224). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

097. --- (1973). Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Available from the University of Minnesota Press]

096. Golden, R., & Meehl, P. E. (1973). Detecting latent clinical taxa, V: A Monte Carlo study of the maximum covariance method and associated consistency tests (Report No. PR-73-3). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

095. Golden, R., & Meehl, P. E. (1973). Detecting latent clinical taxa, IV: Empirical study of the maximum covariance method and the normal minimum chi-square method, using three MMPI keys to identify the sexes (Report No. PR-73-2). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

094. --- (1972). Clinical issues. In S. S. Kety & S. Matthysse (Eds.), Prospects for research on schizophrenia. M.I.T. Neuroscience Research Program Bulletin,10(No. 4), 377-380.

093. --- (1972). A critical afterword. In I. I. Gottesman & J. Shields, Schizophrenia and genetics: A twin study vantage point (pp. 367-416). New York: Academic Press.

092. --- (1972). Second-order relevance. American Psychologist, 27, 932-940.

091. --- (1972). Reactions, reflections, projections. In J. N. Butcher (Ed.), Objective personality assessment: Changing perspectives (pp. 131-189). New York: Academic Press.

090. --- (1972). Specific genetic etiology, psychodynamics and therapeutic nihilism. International Journal of Mental Health, 1, 10-27.

Reprinted: 1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 182-199). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 193-206). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

089. --- (1971). Law and the fireside inductions: Some reflections of a clinical psychologist. Journal of Social Issues, 27, 65-100.

Reprinted: 1977, in J. L. Tapp and F. J. Levine (Eds.), Law, justice, and the individual in society: Psychological and legal issues (pp. 10-28). New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
(Later publication 1989 with added Postscript, see #141.)

088. Meehl, P. E., Lykken, D. T., Schofield, W., & Tellegen, A. (1971). Recaptured-item technique (RIT): A method for reducing somewhat the subjective element in factor-naming. Journal of Experimental Research in Personality, 5, 171-190.

087. --- (1971). A scientific, scholarly, nonresearch doctorate for clinical practitioners: Arguments pro and con. In R. R. Holt (Ed.), New horizon for psychotherapy: Autonomy as a profession (pp. 37-81). New York: International Universities Press.

086. --- (1971). High school yearbooks: A reply to Schwarz. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 77, 143-148.

Reprinted: 1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 174-181). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 31-36). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006.

085. --- (1970). Some methodological reflections on the difficulties of psychoanalytic research. In M. Radner & S. Winokur (Eds.), Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science: Vol. IV. Analyses of theories and methods of physics and psychology (pp. 403-416). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Reprinted: 1973, Psychological Issues, 8, 104-115.

1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 272-283; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

084. --- (1970). Nuisance variables and the ex post facto design. In M. Radner & S. Winokur (Eds.), Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science: Vol. IV. Analyses of theories and methods of physics and psychology (pp. 373-402). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Reprinted: 2006 in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 37-56). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2010, in Stephen Turner, Causality (Volume 4). Newbury Park, CA: Sage (Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series).

083. --- (1970). Psychological determinism and human rationality: A psychologist's reactions to Professor Karl Popper's 'Of clouds and clocks.' In M. Radner & S. Winokur (Eds.), Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science: Vol. IV. Analyses of theories and methods of physics and psychology (pp. 310- 372). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 43-96; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

082. --- (1970). Psychology and the criminal law. University of Richmond Law Review, 5, 1-30.

Reprinted in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 416-439; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

081. Gazzaniga, M. S. (1969, June). Violent man--A seven-way conversation (with D. Premack, L. Festinger, S. Schachter, R. L. Sinsheimer, P. E. Meehl, and K. M. Colby). Psychology Today, pp. 52-54, 59-60, 62-63.

080. --- (1969). Nuisance variables and the ex post facto design (Report No. PR-69-4). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

079. Meehl, P. E., Lykken, D. T., Burdick, M. R., & Schoener, G. R. (1969). Identifying latent clinical taxa, III. An empirical trial of the normal single-indicator method, using MMPI Scale 5 to identify the sexes (Report No. PR-69-1). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

078. --- (1969). Comments on the invasion of privacy issue. In J. N. Butcher (Ed.), MMPI: Research developments and clinical applications (pp. 273-278). New York: McGraw-Hill.

077. Livermore, J. M., Malmquist, C. P., & Meehl, P. E. (1968). On the justifications for civil commitment. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 117, 75-96.

Reprinted in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 395-415; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

076. --- (1968). Detecting latent clinical taxa, II: A simplified procedure, some additional hitmax cut locators, a single-indicator method, and miscellaneous theorems (Report No. PR-68-4). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

075. --- (1967). What can the clinician do well? In D. N. Jackson & S. Messick (Eds.), Problems in human assessment (pp. 594-599). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Reprinted: 1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 165-173). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973.

074. --- (1967). Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox. Philosophy of Science, 34, 103-115.

Reprinted: 1970, in D. E. Morrison & R. E. Henkel (Eds.), The significance test controversy (pp. 252- 266). Chicago: Aldine.

Reprinted: 1970, in P. Badia, A. Haber & R. P. Runyon (Eds.), Research problems in psychology (pp. 278- 294). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

073. Livermore, J. M., & Meehl, P. E. (1967). The virtues of M'Naghten. Minnesota Law Review, 51, 789- 856.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 338-394, C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

072. Committee on Scientific and Professional Aims of Psychology. (1967). The scientific and professional aims of psychology. American Psychologist, 22, 49-76.

071. --- (1966). Psychologists' opinions as to the effects of holding five of Ellis' "Irrational Ideas" (Report No. PR-66-7). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

070. Dawes, R. M., & Meehl, P. E. (1966). Mixed group validation: A method for determining the validity of diagnostic signs without using criterion groups. Psychological Bulletin, 66, 63-67.

Reprinted: 1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 156-164). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

069. --- (1966). The compleat autocerebroscopist: A thought experiment on Professor Feigl's mind-body identity thesis. In P. K. Feyerabend & G. Maxwell (Eds.), Mind, matter, and method: Essays in philosophy and science in honor of Herbert Feigl (pp. 103-180). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 184-248; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

068. Lykken, D. T., & Meehl, P. E. (1966). Contributions to the problem of evaluating autonomic response data: I (Report No. PR-66-2). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

067. --- (1965). Philosophy of science and Christian theology. In J. Bodensieck (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (Vol. 3, pp. 1894-1896). Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House.

066. --- (1965). The creative individual: Why it is hard to identify him. In G. A. Steiner (Ed.), The creative organization (pp. 25-32). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

065. --- (1965). Detecting latent clinical taxa by fallible quantitative indicators lacking an accepted criterion (Report No. PR-65-2). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

064. --- (1965). Seer over sign: The first good example. Journal of Experimental Research in Personality, 1, 27-32.

063. --- (1965). Discussion of Eysenck's "The effects of psychotherapy." International Journal of Psychiatry, 1, 156-157.

062. --- (1965). Let's quit kidding ourselves about the training of clinical psychologists. In R. D. Wirt (Ed.), Professional education in clinical psychology (Mimeo). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

[Revised and published as #087 (1971) "A scientific, scholarly, nonresearch doctorate for clinical practitioners." In R. R. Holt (Ed.), New horizon for psychotherapy: Autonomy as a profession (pp. 37- 81). New York: International Universities Press.]

061. --- (1964). Manual for use with checklist of schizotypic signs (Report No. PR-73-5). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Research Laboratories of the Department of Psychiatry.

060. Glueck, B. C., Meehl, P. E., Schofield, W., & Clyde, D. J. (1964). The quantitative assessment of personality. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 5, 15-23.

059. --- (1962). Schizotaxia, schizotypy, schizophrenia. American Psychologist, 17, 827-838.
Reprinted: 1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 135-155). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

058. Meehl, P. E., Schofield, W., Glueck, B. C., Studdiford, W. B., Hastings, D. W., Hathaway, S. R., & Clyde, D. J. (1962). Minnesota-Ford Pool of Phenotypic Personality Items, August 1962 Edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

057. --- (1962). Psychopathology and purpose. In P. Hoch & J. Zubin (Eds.), The future of psychiatry (pp. 61- 69). New York: Grune and Stratton.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 265-271; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

056. --- (1962). Parapsychology. Encyclopedia Britannica, 17, 267-269.

055. --- (1961). Logic for the clinician. [Review of book by T. R. Sarbin, R. Taft, & D. E. Bailey, Clinical inference and cognitive theory]. Contemporary Psychology, 6, 389-391.

054. --- (1960). Treatment of guilt-feelings. In 1957 Symposium of the American Catholic Psychological Association (pp. 34-41). New York: Fordham University.

053. Meehl, P. E., & Dahlstrom, W. G. (1960). Objective configural rules for discriminating psychotic from neurotic MMPI profiles. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 24, 375-387.

052. Glueck, B. C., Heistad, G. T., & Meehl, P. E. (1960). Approaches to the quantitative analysis of clinical assessment. American Psychiatric Association District Branches Publication No. 1 (pp. 202-212). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

051. --- (1960). The cognitive activity of the clinician. American Psychologist, 15, 19-27.

Reprinted: 1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 117-134). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

050. --- (1959). Q-technique, pros and cons. In B. C. Glueck (Ed.), Report on Conference on Social Adjustment Rating Scales (pp. 11-18). University of Minnesota Center for Continuation Study.

049. --- (1959). Structured and projective tests: Some common problems in validation. Journal of Projective Techniques, 23, 268-272.

048. --- (1959). A comparison of clinicians with five statistical methods of identifying MMPI profiles. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6, 102-109.

047. --- (1959). Some ruminations on the validation of clinical procedures. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 13, 102-128.

Reprinted: 1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 90-116). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973.
2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 271-290). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

046. --- (1959). Some technical and axiological problems in the therapeutic handling of religious and valuational material. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6, 255-259.

045. Meehl, P. E., Klann, R., Schmieding, A., Breimeier, K., & Schroeder-Slomann, S. (1958). What, then, is Man? St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. [Not available as a reprint]

044. Fleeson, W., Glueck, B. C., Heistad, G., King, J. E., Lykken, D. T., Meehl, P. E., & Mena, A. (1958). The ataraxic effect of two phenothiazine drugs on an outpatient population. University of Minnesota Medical Bulletin, 29, 274-286.

043. --- (1957). When shall we use our heads instead of the formula? Journal of Counseling Psychology, 4, 268-273.

Reprinted: 1958, in H. Feigl, M. Scriven, & G. Maxwell (Eds.), Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science. Vol. II: Concepts, theories, and the mind-body problem (pp. 498-506). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 81-89). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973.

2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 263-269). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum,.

042. --- (1957). Religion and the maintenance of mental health. In Society's stake in mental health (pp. 52- 61). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Social Science Research Center.

041. --- (1956). Symposium on clinical and statistical prediction (with C. C. McArthur & D. V. Tiedeman). Journal of Counseling Psychology, 3, 163-173.

040. Meehl, P. E., & Sellars, W. (1956). The concept of emergence. In H. Feigl & M. Scriven (Eds.), Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science: Vol. I. The foundations of science and the concepts of psychology and psychoanalysis (pp. 239-252). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 171-183; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

039. --- (1956). Wanted--a good cookbook. American Psychologist,11, 263-272.

Reprinted 1973, with the title "Problems in the actuarial characterization of a person," in H. Feigl and M. Scriven (Eds.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1: The foundations of science and the concepts of psychology and psychoanalysis (pp. 205-222), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 63-80). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 249-262). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

038. --- (1956). Clinical versus actuarial prediction. In Proceedings of the 1955 Invitational Conference on Testing Problems (pp. 136-141). Princeton: Educational Testing Service.

037. Meehl, P. E., & Scriven, M. J. (1956). Compatibility of science and ESP. Science, 123, 14-15.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 497-499; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

036. Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.

Reprinted: 1973, in H. Feigl and M. Scriven (eds), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1: The Foundations of Science and the Concepts of Psychology and Psychoanalysis (pp. 174- 204), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 3-31). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 9-30). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

035. Meehl, P. E., & Rosen, A. (1955). Antecedent probability and the efficiency of psychometric signs, patterns, or cutting scores. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 194-216.

Reprinted: 1973, in #97 Psychodiagnosis: Selected papers (pp. 32-62). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

2006, in #184 A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology (pp. 213-236). (N.G. Waller, L.J. Yonce, W.M. Grove, D. Faust, & M.F. Lenzenweger, Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

034. --- (1955). Psychotherapy. Annual Review of Psychology, 6, 357-378.

033. --- (1954). Comment on "Analyzing the clinical process." Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1, 207-208.

032. --- (1954). Clinical versus statistical prediction: A theoretical analysis and a review of the evidence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Reprinted with new Preface, 1996, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
2013 by Echo Point Books

031. MacCorquodale, K., & Meehl, P. E. (1954). E. C. Tolman. In W. K. Estes, S. Koch, K. MacCorquodale, P. E. Meehl, C. G. Mueller, W. N. Schoenfeld, & W. S. Verplanck, Modern learning theory (pp. 177- 266). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

030. Bird, C., Clark, K. E., & Meehl, P. E. (1954). Relationships between objective and oral examinations in psychology. In R. E. Eckert & R. J. Keller (Eds.), A university looks at its program. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

029. MacCorquodale, K., & Meehl, P. E. (1953). Preliminary suggestions as to a formalization of expectancy theory. Psychological Review, 60, 55-63.

028. Meehl, P. E., & MacCorquodale, K. (1953). Drive conditioning as a factor in latent learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45, 20-24.

027. APA Committee on Test Standards. (1952). Technical recommendations for psychological tests and diagnostic techniques: Preliminary proposal. American Psychologist, 7, 461-475.

026. Gough, H. G., McClosky, H., & Meehl, P. E. (1952). A personality scale for social responsibility. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 47, 73-80.

025. MacCorquodale, K., & Meehl, P. E. (1951). On the elimination of cul entries without obvious reinforcement. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 44, 367-371.

024. Hathaway, S. R., & Meehl, P. E. (1951, July). The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. In Military Clinical Psychology, Section IX (pp. 71-111). Department of the Army, Technical Manual, TM8-242.

Excerpted version published as "Psychiatric implications of code types." In G. S. Welsh & W. G. Dahlstrom (Eds.), Basic readings on the MMPI in psychology and medicine (pp. 136-144). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956.

023. Gough, H. G., McClosky, H., & Meehl, P. E. (1951). A personality scale for dominance. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 46, 360-366.

022. Meehl, P. E., & MacCorquodale, K. (1951). Some methodological comments concerning expectancy theory. Psychological Review, 58, 230-233.

021. Meehl, P. E., & MacCorquodale, K. (1951). A failure to find the Blodgett effect, and some secondary observations on drive conditioning. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 44, 178- 183.

020. Hathaway, S. R., & Meehl, P. E. (1951). An atlas for the clinical use of the MMPI. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Not available as a reprint]

019. --- (1950). Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in counseling. St. Paul: Advisement and Guidance Section, Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Division, Veterans Administration.

018. --- (1950). Configural scoring. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 14, 165-171.

017. --- (1950). A most peculiar paradox. Philosophical Studies, 1, 47-48.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 169-170; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

016. --- (1950). On the circularity of the Law of Effect. Psychological Bulletin, 47, 52-75.

Reprinted as "Law and convention in psychology" in H. Feigl and M. Brodbeck (eds), Readings in the philosophy of science (pp. 637-659), New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953.

015. MacCorquodale, K., & Meehl, P. E. (1949). "Cognitive" learning in the absence of competition of incentives. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 42, 383-390.

014. Meehl, P. E., & MacCorquodale, K. (1948). A further study of latent learning in the T-maze. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 41, 372-396.

013. MacCorquodale, K., & Meehl, P. E. (1948). On a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables. Psychological Review, 55, 95-107.

Reprinted: 1991, in Meehl, Selected philosophical and methodological papers (pp. 249-264; C. A. Anderson and K. Gunderson, Eds.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

012. McKinley, J. C., Hathaway, S. R., & Meehl, P. E. (1948). The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: VI. The K scale. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 12, 20-31.

011. --- (1947). Schizophrenia, catatonic form. In A. H. Burton & R. E. Harris (Eds.), Case histories in clinical and abnormal psychology (pp. 71-83). New York: Harper.

010. Meehl, P. E. (1947). Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory [outline of presentation]. In Fifth Annual Industrial Relations Conference Report (pp. 3-5). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Center for Continuation Study.

009. Bird, C., Heron, W. T., Meehl, P. E., & Paterson, D. G. (1947). The foreign language requirement for the Ph.D. American Psychologist, 2, 136-138.

008. Meehl, P. E., & McClosky, H. (1947). Ethical and political aspects of applied psychology. Journal of Abnormal and Social Pychology, 42, 91-98.

007. Meehl, P. E. & Hathaway, S. R. (1946). The K factor as a suppressor variable in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Journal of Applied Psychology, 30, 525-564.

006. Meehl, P. E. (1946). Profile analysis of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in differential diagnosis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 30, 517-524.

005. Meehl, P. E., & Jeffery, M. (1946). The Hunt-Minnesota Test for Organic Brain Damage in cases of functional depression. Journal of Applied Psychology, 30, 276-287.

004. --- (1945). An investigation of a general normality or control factor in personality testing. Psychological Monographs, 59(4, Whole No. 274).

003. --- (1945). An examination of the treatment of stimulus patterning in Professor Hull's Principles of Behavior. Psychological Review, 52, 324-332.

002. --- (1945). A simple algebraic development of Horst's suppressor variables. American Journal of Psychology, 58, 550-554.

001. Meehl, P. E. (1945). The dynamics of "structured" personality tests. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1, 296-303.

Reprinted with Prefatory Comment, 1971, in L. D. Goodstein & R. I. Lanyon (Eds.), Readings in personality assessment (pp. 245-253). New York: Wiley.

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