Three sub-scales of the MMPI (Sc, Pa, and Stein's recently devised Suspicion scale) had low positive correlations with two interview-derived indices of paranoia in a sample of 44 patients who had been classified by the staffs of their wards as either clearly paranoid or clearly non-paranoid.
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