Evidence-Based Preemployment Predictions of Police Officer Performance Using the MMPI-3

David M. Corey, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist with more than 40 years of experience performing suitability and fitness evaluations for police and other safety-sensitive positions. He is the founding president of the American Board of Police & Public Safety Psychology and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 18). He is licensed to practice psychology in Oregon, Hawaii, Washington, California, Utah, Arizona, and Ireland, and he is the examining psychologist for more than 200 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. His professional activities consist mainly of conducting suitability and fitness-for-duty evaluation, as well as teaching, conducting research, and providing expert testimony on these topics. Dr. Corey has authored or coauthored more over 30 books, chapters, and journal articles on suitability and fitness evaluations, including the MMPI-3 Police Candidate Interpretive Report (Corey & Ben-Porath, 2020) and Evaluations of Police Suitability and Fitness for Duty (Corey & Zelig, 2020).

Yossef Ben-Porath is a Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University. He received his doctoral training at the University of Minnesota and has been involved extensively in MMPI research for the past 35 years. He is a co-developer of the MMPI-3, MMPI-2-RF, and MMPI-A-RF and co-author of test manuals, books, book chapters, and articles on the MMPI instruments. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychological Assessment. Dr. Ben-Porath is a board-certified psychologist (American Board of Professional Psychology-Clinical) whose clinical practice involves supervision of assessments at Kent State's Psychological Clinic, consultation to agencies that screen candidates for public safety positions and provision of consultation and expert witness services in forensic cases.