Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty

An attempt to provide understandable and up-to-date information regarding intelligence testing, intelligence theories, personal competence, adaptive behavior and intellectual disability (mental retardation) as they relate to death penalty (capital punishment) issues. A particular focus will be on psychological measurement, statistical and psychometric issues.

Sharing The magical numbers 7 and 4 are resistant to the Flynn effect: No evidence for increases in forward or backward recall across 85 years of data via BrowZine

The Death Penalty in the U.S. Military [feedly]

Neurolaw Conference at Swansea University, December 11-12 [feedly]

Sharing Using a prison sample to assess the association between the general factor of personality and general intelligence via BrowZine

Georgia Judge Would Allow Execution of Intellectually Disabled Man, But Calls for Higher Court Review [feedly]

Sharing The Legitimacy of the US Supreme Court: Conventional Wisdoms and Recent Challenges Thereto via BrowZine

Intelligence is in the Eye of the Beholder: Investigating Repeated IQ Measurements in Forensic Psychiatry - Habets - 2014 - Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities - Wiley Online Library

New meta-analysis confirms that IQ tests over-predict job performance for African-Americans

Article: Understanding Dual Diagnosis: Intellectual Disability and Mental Health

Article: Assessing Intellectual Functioning and Adaptive Behavior

FYI. The MindHub web portal has been updated

The new Joint Test Standard are now available for purchase

Sharing Comparisons of Five Performance Validity Indices in Bona Fide and Simulated Traumatic Brain Injury via BrowZine

Sharing Are Verbal Intelligence Subtests and Reading Measures Immune to Non-Credible Effort? via BrowZine

Sharing One-Week Practice Effects in Older Adults: Tools for Assessing Cognitive Change via BrowZine

Article: Assessing Intellectual Functioning and Adaptive Behavior

"Scientizing Culpability: The Implications of Hall v. Florida and the Possibility of a 'Scientific Stare Decisis'" [feedly]

Federal court rejects IQ defense in death case - Richmond Times-Dispatch: Virginia News

The Richard Woodcock Institute for Advancement of Cognitive Assessment: Oct, 25, 2014

JURIST - Hall v. Florida: Over Relying on a Single Source to Set a National Standard

WJ IV update: Correlations of WJ IV COG g-scores (GIA,Brief,Gf-Gc composite) and WISC-IV/WAIS-IV FS and GAI IQ scores

Article: Assessing Intellectual Functioning and Adaptive Behavior

Quotes to note: Importance of high quality psychological testing to psychologists

Fwd: [ABA-3D] Webinar Announcement

More on Greenspan's model of personal competence: Relationship between IQ and social, practical, and conceptual abilities

The new WJ IV: Introductory webinar and author video interviews

2014 BEST IN category - Proud of my daughter Beth..the artist behind this winning photo

Law Review Article: Advantages of DSM-5 in the Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability: Reducing Reliance on IQ Ceilings in Atkins (Death Penalty) Cases

Atkins MR/ID Death Penalty Court Decisions: Brumfield v Cain (Louisiana, 2014)

The CHC Taxonomy of Human Cognitive Abilities Codebooks---two slide shows