ABSTRACT
Kuhn (1970) defined a scientific paradigm as a developing school of thought that gathered “adherents away from competing modes of scientific activity (and)… was…open-ended (leaving varied) problems…to resolve” (P. 10). In the paradigmatic system of objective personality testing, few have survived the test of time and rigorous research. The MMPI-2 has unequivocally become the quintessential flagship of objective personality testing in clinical and research psychology (Friedman et al., 2001). Thus, the use of the MMPI-2 can easily be conceptualized in terms of Kuhn’s paradigm analogy. The original premise and theories rest on the use of the empirically validated scales. Clearly, the development of the MMPI and the original use of the Clinical scales attracted many researchers and practitioners and allowed for unique diagnostic and empirical questions to be answered for years to come.
