- Memo: Meehl to Lykken (1966-67). Problems of strategy in research on schizophrenia.
Research methodology for a proper study of schizophrenia.
- Memo: Meehl to Garmezy (1965). Collecting MMPI profiles on parents of your schizophrenic sample.
Similarities and differences in predictions made by genetic and social-learning theories of schizophrenia.
- Memo Dictated: Meehl (April 3, 1992) reply to Goldberg (written memo March 31, 1992).
Paul Meehl (aka “Pablo”) replies to questions from Lewis R. Goldberg (aka “Luigi”) regarding Meehl’s “Factors and taxa, traits and types, differences of degree and differences in kind” (Journal of Personality, 1992). View Lew's memo first to see issues as Paul discusses them. At the end of the recording (at 30+ min.), Paul corrects/clarifies details in his earlier remarks about how his taxometric procedures could fail.
- Memo: Meehl to David Lubinski (1999). Thoughts on construct validity.
Meehl's assessment of Cronbach & Meehl (1955, "Construct validity in psychological tests").
- Memo: Meehl to Herbert Feigl (1976/1993). Prolegomena to post-positivist ethics.
In 1976 Paul Meehl sent Herbert Feigl (his teacher, friend, and colleague in the Philosophy Department and the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science) this memo outlining his thinking about ethics. He continued to read and think about the questions of ethics through subsequent years, but Meehl always regretted that he couldn't “solve ethics” to his own satisfaction.