Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education

Professor of Psychology

Board Certified in Assessment Psychology

President (2021-2022), Society for Personality Assessment

Rorschach Performance Assessment System, Co-Developer

UH 1067
419.530.2716
joni.mihura@utoledo.edu

Scholars Profile

research interests

• Psychosis
• Meta-Analysis
• Construct validity
• Multimethod assessment
• Rorschach validity and utility
• Psychodynamic conceptualization and intervention
• Doctoral training

APA Proposed Training for Serious Mental Illness Speciality

rorschach performance assessment system podcast by mihura

At The Testing Psychologist Website HERE

essay

"Why the Statement 'The Rorschach is Invalid' is Invalid"

mihura bio

Joni L Mihura. (2017). In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.). Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. New York, NY: Springer.

selected publications

• Mihura, J. L. (Ed.) (2022). The Oxford handbook of personality and psychopathology assessment [in progress]. Oxford.
• 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 (SELECTED)

• Mihura, J. L., McCord, D. M., Meyer, G. J., Ales, F., Roy, M., Dumitrascu, N., & Buckingham, K. N., Boyette, L.-L., & Kleiger, J. H. (2022). A meta-analytic review of the MMPI’s (all versions) ability to detect psychosis in clinical and forensic settings [Manuscript in Preparation]. University of Toledo, Ohio, Department of Psychology.
• Mihura, J. L., Kleiger, J. H., & Khadivi, A. (2022). Assessment of psychosis and psychotic phenomena [chapter in progress]. In J. L. Mihura (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of personality and psychopathology assessment. Oxford.
• Mihura, J. L., & Gorner, K. J. (2022). Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) and the assessment of bipolar spectrum disorders (accepted chapter). In J. H. Kleiger & I. B. Weiner (Eds). Psychological assessment of bipolar spectrum disorders. American Psychological Association.
• Mihura, J. L., Jowers, C. E., Dumitrascu, N., Villanueva van den Hurk, A. W., & Keddy, P. (2022). The specific uses of the Rorschach in clinical practice: Preliminary results from an international survey. Rorschachiana,43(1), 25–41. https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000155
• Ales, F., Meyer, G. J., Mihura, J. L., Loia, A. C., Pasqualini, S., Zennaro, A., & Giromini, L. (2022). Can the Rorschach be administered remotely? A review of options and a pilot study using a newly developed R-PAS app. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-022-09447-z
• Kleiger, J. H., & Mihura, J. L. (2021). Developments in the Rorschach assessment of disordered thinking and communication. Rorschachiana, 42(2), 265–280. https://doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000132.
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000245-010
• Wright, A. J., Chávez, L., Edelstein, B. A., Grus, C. L., Krishnamurthy, R., Lieb, R., Mihura, J. L., Pincus, A. L., & Wilson, M. (2020). Education and training guidelines for psychological assessment in health service psychology. American Psychologist. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000742
• Hosseininasab, A., Meyer, G. J., Viglione, D. J., Mihura, J. L., Berant, E., Resende, A. C., Reese, J., & Mohammadi, M. R. (2019). The effect of CS administration or an R-Optimized alternative on R-PAS variables: A meta-analysis of findings from six studies. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101(2), 199-212. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2017.1393430
• 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. doi:10.1080/00223891.2018.1458315
• Meyer, G. J., Hosseininasab, A., Viglione, D. J., Mihura, J. L., Berant, E., Resende, A. C., & Reese, J. (2019). The effect of CS administration or an R-Optimized alternative on potential projective material in Rorschach responses from six studies and a meta-analysis of their findings. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101, 199-212. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2018.1492926
• 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. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2018.08.006
• Mihura, J. L., Dumitrascu, N., Roy, M., & Meyer, G. J. (2018). The centrality of the response process in construct validity: An illustration via the Rorschach space response. Journal of Personality Assessment, 100, 233-249. doi:10.1080/00223891.2017.1306781
• Graceffo, R. A., Mihura, J. L, & Meyer, G. J. (2014). A meta-analysis of an implicit measure of personality functioning: The Mutuality of Autonomy Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment. doi:10.1037/a0029406
• 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. doi:10.1037/a0029406