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===Addition of the Lees-Haley FBS (Symptom Validity) === {{main|Lees-Haley Fake Bad Scale}} Psychologist Paul Lees-Haley developed the FBS (Fake Bad Scale). Although the FBS acronym remains in use, the official name for the scale changed to Symptom Validity Scale when it was incorporated into the standard scoring reports produced by Pearson, the licensed publisher.<ref>{{cite web|title=MMPI-2 Symptom Validity Scale (FBS)|url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/test-division/mtdda/mmpi-2-symptom-validity-scale-fbs|work=Pearson Assessments|publisher=Pearson Clinical Psychology|access-date=19 May 2014}}</ref> Some psychologists question the validity and utility of the FBS scale. The peer-reviewed journal ''[[Psychological Injury and Law (journal)|Psychological Injury and Law]]'' published a series of pro and con articles in 2008, 2009, and 2010.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Butcher | first1 = James N. | last2 = Gass | first2 = Carlton S. | last3 = Cumella | first3 = Edward | last4 = Kally | first4 = Zina | last5 = Williams | first5 = Carolyn L. | title = Potential for Bias in MMPI-2 Assessments Using the Fake Bad Scale (FBS) | journal = Psychological Injury and Law | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | pages = 191β209 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1007/s12207-007-9002-z | s2cid = 143783118 }}</ref><ref name=bp2008>{{cite journal | last1 = Ben-Porath | first1 = Yossef S. | last2 = Greve | first2 = Kevin W. | last3 = Bianchini | first3 = Kevin J. | last4 = Kaufmann | first4 = Paul M. | title = The MMPI-2 Symptom Validity Scale (FBS) is an Empirically Validated Measure of Overreporting in Personal Injury Litigants and Claimants: Reply to Butcher et al. (2008) | journal = Psychological Injury and Law | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 62β85 | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/s12207-009-9037-4 | s2cid = 143732509 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Williams | first1 = Carolyn L. | last2 = Butcher | first2 = James N. | last3 = Gass | first3 = Carlton S. | last4 = Cumella | first4 = Edward | last5 = Kally | first5 = Zina | title = Inaccuracies About the MMPI-2 Fake Bad Scale in the Reply by Ben-Porath, Greve, Bianchini, and Kaufman (2009) | journal = Psychological Injury and Law | volume = 2 | issue = 2 | pages = 182β197 | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/s12207-009-9046-3 | s2cid = 144695016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Gass | first1 = Carlton S. | last2 = Williams | first2 = Carolyn L. | last3 = Cumella | first3 = Edward | last4 = Butcher | first4 = James N. | last5 = Kally | first5 = Zina | title = An Ambiguous Measure of Unknown Constructs: The MMPI-2 Fake Bad Scale (a.k.a. Symptom Validity Scale, FBS, FBS-r) | journal = Psychological Injury and Law | volume = 3 | issue = 1 | pages =81β85 | year = 2010 | doi = 10.1007/s12207-009-9063-2 | s2cid = 144642776 }}</ref> Investigations of the factor structure of the Symptom Validity Scale (FBS and FBS-r) raise doubts about the scale's construct and predictive validity in the detection of [[Malingering of post-traumatic stress disorder|malingering]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Gass | first1 = Carlton S. | last2 = Odland | first2 = Anthony P. | title = MMPI-2 Revised Form Symptom Validity Scale-Revised (MMPI-2-RF FBS-r; also known as Fake Bad Scale): Psychometric characteristics in a nonlitigation neuropsychological setting. | journal = Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology | volume = 34 | issue = 6 | pages = 561β570 | year = 2012 | pmid = 22384793| doi = 10.1080/13803395.2012.666228 | s2cid = 24986442 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Gass | first1 = Carlton S. | last2 = Odland | first2 = Anthony P. | title = MMPI-2 Symptom Validity (FBS) Scale: Psychometric characteristics and limitations in a Veterans Affairs neuropsychological setting.) | journal = Applied Neuropsychology: Adult | volume = 21 | issue = 2 | pages = 1β8 | year = 2014 | pmid = 24826489| doi = 10.1080/09084282.2012.715608 | s2cid = 8424957 }}</ref>
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