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.

Does the rot start at the top? On a current Flynn effect study argument

Research Byte: Psychological and Cognitive Aspects of Borderline Intellectual Functioning : A Systematic Review

What Caused over a Century of Decline in General Intelligence? Testing Predictions from the Genetic Selection and Neurotoxin Hypotheses | SpringerLink

Validity, Interrater Reliability, and Measures of Adaptive Behavior: Concerns Regarding the Probative Versus Prejudicial Value

Five Factor Model personality disorder scales: An introduction to a special section on assessment of maladaptive variants of the five factor model.

Research Byte: False Confessions: How Can Psychology So Basic Be So Counterintuitive?

Atkins court decision: Farad Roland v USA (NJ; 2018)

Does the rot start at the top? New different Flynn effect research

Research review of efficacy of effort testing with culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse populations

Research Byte: The Role of Visuospatial Ability in the Raven's Progressive Matrices

Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty: Current Issues and Controversies: Marc J. Tassé Ph.D., John H. Blume JD MAR: 9781440840142: Amazon.com: Books

Research Byte: What Causes the Anti-Flynn Effect? A Data Synthesis and Analysis of Predictors

The SCOTUS Lineup on the Death Penalty

Meta-analysis supports cognitive ability differentiation hypotheses (SLODOR)

Federal Court Rules to Protect the Interest of Incompetent North Carolina Death-Row Exoneree

CFA of WISC-V: A five factor CHC battery

SCOTUS orders Florida to reconsider Atkins case in light of Moore v Texas: Tavares Wright

"Neuroscience Nuance: Dissecting the Relevance of Neuroscience in Adjudicating Criminal Culpability"

Law Review Article: Lucas (2017) An Empirical Assessment of Georgia's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Standard to Determine Intellectual Disability in Capital Cases

Atkins-related Court decision: Cathey v Davis (2017, Texas)

Atkins related case: Wesely Coonce v USA Appellants Opening Brief

Law Review Article (Meyer, 2017): The newly informed decency of death: Hall v Florida endorses the Marsshall hypothesis in eighth ammendment review of the death penalty

Flynn effect reference project

Evaluating WAIS–IV structure through a different psychometric lens: structural causal model discovery as an alternative to confirmatory factor analysis via BrowZine

Sharing The use of neuropsychological tests to assess intelligence via BrowZine

Sharing Psychometrics and statistics: two pillars of neuropsychological practice via BrowZine

The Intelligent Brain: One of the Great Courses on sale

Validation of the Advanced Clinical Solutions Word Choice Test (WCT) in a Mixed Clinical Sample: Establishing Classification Accuracy, Sensitivity/Specificity, and Cutoff Scores via BrowZine

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Flynn effect adjustment of IQ scores in Atkins death penalty cases: Black v Carpenter (2017)

The Newly Informed Decency of Death: Hall v. Florida Endorses the Marshall Hypothesis in Eighth Amendment Review of the Death Penalty by Chance Meyer :: SSRN