Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education

Professor of Psychology

Board Certified in Assessment Psychology

Rorschach Performance Assessment System, Co-Developer

R-PAS in Multimethod Assessment Conference, Founder and Organizer

UH 1067
419.530.2716
joni.mihura@utoledo.edu

Scholars Profile

research interests

• Psychosis
• Meta-Analysis
• Construct validity
• Multimethod assessment
• Rorschach validity and utility

APA Proposed Training for Serious Mental Illness Speciality

rorschach performance assessment system podcast by mihura

At The Testing Psychologist Website HERE

selected publications

Books

• Mihura, J. L. (2025). The Oxford handbook of personality and psychopathology assessment (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/35425 
• Mihura, J. L. & Meyer, G. J. (Eds.) (2018). Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
• Meyer, G. J., Viglione, D. J., Mihura, J. L., Erard, R. E., & Erdberg, P. (2011). Rorschach Performance Assessment System: Administration, coding, interpretation, and technical manual. Toledo, OH: Rorschach Performance Assessment System.

Articles and Chapters (Psychosis)

• Mihura, J. L., Boyette, L.-L., Görner, K. J., Kleiger, J. H., Jowers, C. E., & Ales, F. (2024). Improving dependability in science: A critique on the psychometric qualities of the HiTOP Psychosis superspectrum. Schizophrenia Research, 270, 433-440.
• Mihura, J. L., & Starin, M. (2024). An empirically informed framework for multimethod assessment with a focus on psychosis. In J. L. Mihura (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of personality and psychopathology assessment. Oxford.
• Mihura, J. L., Kleiger, J. H., & Khadivi, A. (2023). Assessment of psychosis and psychotic phenomena. In J. L. Mihura (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of personality and psychopathology assessment. Oxford.
• Roy, T. A., Mihura, J. L., Friedman, A. F., Nichols, D. S., & Meloy, J. R. (2023). The last psychological evaluation of Charles Manson: Implications for personality, psychopathology, and ideology. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 10(3), 127–150.
• Meyer, G. J., & Mihura, J. L. (2021). Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) for assessing disordered thought and perception. In I. B. Weiner & J. H. Kleiger (Eds.), Psychological assessment of disordered thinking and perception (pp. 151–168). American Psychological Association.
• Kleiger, J. H., & Mihura, J. L. (2021). Developments in the Rorschach assessment of disordered thinking and communication. Rorschachiana, 42(2), 265–280.
• Eblin, J. J., Meyer, G. J., Mihura, J. L., Viglione, D. J., & O’Gorman, E. T. (2018). Development and preliminary validation of a brief behavioral measure of psychotic propensity. Psychiatry Research, 268, 340-347.

Articles (Other, Narrowly Selected)

• Mihura, J. L., York, D. J., Boyer, S. M., Ausman, E. M., Meadows, E. A., & Meyer, G. J. (2025). Behavioral signs of trauma on the Rorschach: Development of the Trauma Experience Index. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, and Practice. Advance online publication https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0001924
• Wright, A. J., Chávez, L., Edelstein, B., Grus, C., Krishnamurthy, R., Lieb, R., Mihura, J. L., Pincus, A. L., & Wilson, M. (2021). Education and training guidelines for psychological assessment in health service psychology. American Psychologist, 76(5), 794–801.
• Mihura, J. L., Bombel, G., Dumitrascu, N., Roy, M., & Meadows, E. A. (2019). Why we need a formal systematic approach to validating psychological tests: The case of the Rorschach Comprehensive System. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101, 374-392.
• Mihura, J. L., Meyer, G. J., Dumitrascu, N., & Bombel, G. (2013). The validity of individual Rorschach variables: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the comprehensive system. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 548-605.