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Strategies used in feigning hearing loss
F N Martin1, C A Champlin, T M McCreery
1Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA.
Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
|March 23, 2001
Abstract:
Thirty unsophisticated participants with normal hearing were paid to simulate a hearing loss according to their success in "deceiving" the examiner. The behaviors that these "malingerers" manifested are described. A post-examination interview revealed the strategies used by these participants, which may reflect those strategies used by patients who truly attempt to feign a hearing loss.