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| David K MarcusSummaryAffiliation: University of Southern Mississippi Country: USA Publications
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Lead and conduct problems: a meta-analysisDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 39:234-41. 2010..Overall, the relation between lead exposure and conduct problems was strikingly similar in magnitude to the relation between lead exposure and decreased IQ...- Adjudicative competence: evidence that impairment in "rational understanding" is taxonicDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, Suite 5025, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
Psychol Assess 22:716-22. 2010..Taxometric analyses of the Appreciation scale of the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool--Criminal Adjudication, with a sample of 721 defendants, provided support for a taxonic structure... 
Does attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder have a dimensional latent structure? A taxometric analysisDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, 5025, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 120:427-42. 2011..These findings jibe with recent research on the genetic basis of ADHD and with contemporary models of ADHD...- Health anxiety, rumination, and negative affect: a mediational analysisDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA
J Psychosom Res 64:495-501. 2008..A ruminative cognitive style has been associated with a variety of mood and anxiety disorders. This study examined whether a ruminative cognitive style is associated with health anxiety, even when controlling for negative affect... - Is risky sexual behavior continuous or categorical? A taxometric analysis of the Sexual Risk SurveyDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, 5025, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
Psychol Assess 23:282-6. 2011..The implications of these findings for the assessment of risky sexual behavior are discussed... 
Health anxiety and terro management: commentary on "Memory bias in health anxiety is related to the emotional valence of health-related words"David K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001, USA
J Psychosom Res 62:275-6. 2007- The therapeutic alliance in adolescent substance abuse treatment: a one-with-many analysisDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
J Couns Psychol 58:449-55. 2011.... - Is antisocial personality disorder continuous or categorical? A taxometric analysisDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 0001, USA
Psychol Med 36:1571-81. 2006..The objective of this study was to ascertain the latent structure of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD)... - Don't fear the social relations model: reply to Piper, Ogrodniczuk, Lamarche, and JoyceDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
Int J Group Psychother 56:211-9. 2006..There is much to be gained from learning the SRM; for those group therapists and researchers who do not want to learn the SRM, they can always consult or collaborate with SRM researchers... - Interpersonal feedback: a social relations perspectiveDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, Sam Houston State University, TX, USA
Int J Group Psychother 56:173-89. 2006..A case example is used to demonstrate how an SRM perspective could guide therapists' ways of conceptualizing feedback... - The latent structure of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in an adult sampleDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
J Psychiatr Res 46:782-9. 2012..These findings are consistent with previous taxometric studies that examined ADHD in children and adolescents, and with contemporary polygenic and multifactorial models of ADHD... - The two-factor model of psychopathic personality: evidence from the Psychopathic Personality InventoryDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 4820, USA
Personal Disord 3:140-54. 2012..Our findings also indicate the need for future studies using the two-factor model of the PPI to conduct moderational analyses to examine potential interactions between FD and SCI in the prediction of important criterion measures... - Psychopathic, not psychopath: taxometric evidence for the dimensional structure of psychopathyJohn F Edens
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:131-44. 2006..The authors discuss the theoretical, public policy, and practice-level implications of these findings... - Paranoid personality has a dimensional latent structure: taxometric analyses of community and clinical samplesJohn F Edens
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4235, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:545-53. 2009..Additionally, analyses of external correlates in these data sets suggested that dimensional models demonstrated stronger validity coefficients with criterion measures than did dichotomous models... - Irrational health beliefs and health anxietyJessica J Fulton
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
J Clin Psychol 67:527-38. 2011..These findings suggest that the range of dysfunctional beliefs associated with health anxiety is greater than was initially described by the cognitive-behavioral model... - Are dysfunctional beliefs about illness unique to hypochondriasis?David K Marcus
Department of Psychology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341 2447, USA
J Psychosom Res 54:543-7. 2003..However, it is not known whether this tendency is unique to hypochondriasis or whether it can be attributed to high negative affectivity or other anxiety symptoms often found to be comorbid with hypochondriasis... - Exploring the taxometric status of psychopathy among youthful offenders: is there a juvenile psychopath taxon?John F Edens
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 4235, USA
Law Hum Behav 35:13-24. 2011..g., delinquent behavior, substance abuse, and hostility) indicated superior validity for the dimensional model. Implications for research, policy, and practice are reviewed... - Comparing the relative fit of categorical and dimensional latent variable models using consistency testsJohn Ruscio
Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 08628, USA
Psychol Assess 22:5-21. 2010.... - Detecting small taxa using simulated comparison data: A reanalysis of Beach, Amir, and Bau's (2005) dataJohn Ruscio
Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 08628, USA
Psychol Assess 19:241-6. 2007..Additionally, the authors discuss and illustrate the effective use of the inchworm consistency test to disambiguate taxometric results for small taxa and dimensional constructs with positively skewed indicators... - A taxometric analysis of psychopathic personalityDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341 2447, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:626-35. 2004..Consistent with prior studies that used other measures of psychopathy, none of the analyses was consistent with a taxonic solution, suggesting that psychopathic personality may be best understood as existing on a continuum... - Cognitive and perceptual variables in hypochondriasis and health anxiety: a systematic reviewDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Dr 5025, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 5025, United States
Clin Psychol Rev 27:127-39. 2007.... - Taxometric analyses of borderline personality features in a large-scale male and female offender sampleJohn F Edens
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:705-11. 2008..Theoretical and pragmatic implications of these findings are reviewed... - Youth with psychopathy features are not a discrete class: a taxometric analysisDaniel C Murrie
Sam Houston State University, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:714-23. 2007.... - The two-factor model of psychopathic personality: evidence from the psychopathic personality inventoryDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 4820, USA
Personal Disord 4:67-76. 2013..Our findings also indicate the need for future studies using the two-factor model of the PPI to conduct moderational analyses to examine potential interactions between FD and SCI in the prediction of important criterion measures... - The latent structure of Multiphasic Sex Inventory-assessed pedophilic interestJulia E MaCkaronis
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Assess 23:1017-22. 2011..The results converged to indicate that pedophilic interest (as measured by the MSI) is dimensional. The implications of these findings for the assessment of pedophilic interest are discussed... - The latent structure of alcohol use pathology in an epidemiological sampleBradley A Green
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, 5025 Hattiesburg, MS 39406, United States
J Psychiatr Res 45:225-33. 2011..These analyses converged on a low base rate alcohol pathology taxon. The relevance of these findings for the diagnosis, etiology, further research, and treatment of alcohol use disorders is discussed... - Lead and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms: a meta-analysisJames K Goodlad
Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, 5025, Hattiesburg, MS 39406, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 33:417-25. 2013..001). Overall, the relation between lead exposure and ADHD symptoms was similar in magnitude to the relation between lead exposure and decreased IQ and between lead exposure and conduct problems... - Sex differences in judgments of physical attractiveness: a social relations analysisDavid K Marcus
Department of Psychology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341 2447, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:325-35. 2003..People agree about others' attractiveness, and those who are attractive to others know they are pretty or handsome...