Methodology

Dr. Knight has published several articles that focus on controversial methodological issues in the domains that he studies. His most elaborate methodological contributions have focused on the study of cognitive deficiencies in schizophrenia and how to differentiate specific deficits from general cognitive deficiencies. He has also written about strategies for generating and validating typologies and assessing taxonic versus dimensional latent traits and ways to relate symptoms to underlying processes. He has been involved in debates about how to assess risk for recidivism, and he has created his own computer administered, contingency-based inventory, the MIDSA.

Cognitive Deficits

Knight, R. A. (1984). Converging models of cognitive deficit in schizophrenia. In W. D. Spaulding & J. K. Cole (Eds.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1983: Theories of Schizophrenia and Psychosis (pp. 93-156). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Knight, R. A. (1989). Cognitive deficiencies in schizophrenics: Abandoning cognitive models generated for normals confuses rather than clarifies. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive [European Bulletin of Cognitive Psychology], 9, 642-649.

Knight, R. A. (1987). Relating cognitive processes to symptoms: A strategy to counter methodological difficulties. In P. D. Harvey & E. Walker (Eds.), Positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia (pp. 1-29). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Knight, R. A., & Silverstein, S. M. (1998). The role of cognitive psychology in guiding research on cognitive deficits in schizophrenia: A process oriented approach. In M. F. Lenzenweger & R. H. Dworkin (Eds.), Origins and development of schizophrenia: Advances in experimental psychopathology (pp. 247-295). Washington DC: APA Press.

Knight, R. A., & Silverstein, S. M. (2001). A strategy for averting confounds resulting from general performance deficiencies in schizophrenia: A process-oriented approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 15-30.

Taxometrics and Typologies

Knight, R. A., & Prentky, R. A. (1990). Classifying sexual offenders: The development and corroboration of taxonomic models. In W. L. Marshall, D. R. Laws, & H. E. Barbaree (Eds.), The handbook of sexual assault: Issues, theories, and treatment of the offender (pp. 23-52). New York: Plenum Press.

Knight, R. A., Rosenberg, R., & Schneider, B. (1985). Classification of sexual offenders: Perspectives, methods, and validation. In A. W. Burgess (Ed.), Research handbook on rape and sexual assault (pp. 222-293). New York: Garland Publishing Inc.

Marcus, D. K., Sanford, G., Edens, J. F., Knight, R. A., & Walters, G. D. (2011). Taxometrics and evolutionary theory: The case of the psychopathic sexuality taxon. Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, 8, 6-16.

Walters, G. D., McGrath, R. E., & Knight, R. A., (2010). Taxometrics, polytomous constructs, and the comparison curve fit index: A Monte Carlo analysis. Psychological Assessment, 22, 149-156.

Diagnosis and Symptoms

Knight, R. A. (2010). Is a diagnostic category for paraphilic coercive disorder defensible? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 419-426.

Knight, R. A., & Thornton, D. (2011). A dialogue on paraphilia coercive disorder: Moving toward an empirically based consensus. Sex Offender Law Report, 12, 33, 43-46.

Risk Assessment

Knight, R. A. (2003). Risk assessment of recidivism: Discussion of the section, comments by Dr.

Knight. In R. A. Prentky, E. Janus, & M. Seto (Eds.), Sexual coercion: Understanding and management (pp. 241-244). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.

MIDSA Assessment

Knight, R. A., & Cerce, D. D. (1999). Validation and revision of the Multidimensional Assessment of Sex and Aggression. Psychologica Belgica, 39-2/3, 187-213.

Knight, R. A., Prentky, R. A., & Cerce, D. D. (1994). The development, reliability, and validity of an inventory for the Multidimensional Assessment of Sex and Aggression. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 21, 72-94.

MIDSA clinical manual. (2011). Bend, OR: Augur Enterprises, Inc. Available at www.midsa.us.