{{Short description|Canadian psychologist (1947–2021)}} {{primary sources|date=February 2021}} '''Zack Zdenek Cernovsky''' (January 26, 1947 – October 25, 2021)<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Zack Cernovsky |url=https://lfpress.remembering.ca/obituary/zack-cernovsky-1083650728 |website=Remembering.ca |publisher=London Free Press |language=en |date=29 October 2021}}</ref> was a Canadian psychologist. He was a professor of psychiatry in the [[Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry]]<ref>''"General Psychiatry Faculty". Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. Retrieved 2020-04-23.''</ref> at the [[University of Western Ontario]]. He was educated at the [[University of Berne]] and the [[University of Zurich]], and taught overseas classes for the [[University of Maryland]] before joining the faculty of the University of Western Ontario. His more than 180 scientific publications in psychology and psychiatry deal with topics such as the [[Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory|MMPI]], [[schizophrenia]], psychological statistics and research design, [[sleep disorder]]s, [[Posttraumatic stress disorder|PTSD]] symptoms in refugees, the frequent psychological polytraumatic symptom pattern encountered in survivors of motor vehicle accidents (chronic pain, pain related insomnia, [[Post-concussion syndrome|post-concussion]] and [[Whiplash (medicine)|whiplash syndrome]], PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety and [[Driving phobia|driving anxiety]]), and assessments of subjective psychological symptoms of whiplash injury, as a part of [[medical psychology]].
He published<ref>Hayman, RL. ''The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law.'' New York, NY: New York University Press (NYU Press), page 304. {{ISBN|9780814735343}}.</ref> statistical/methodological critiques of the work of racial theoretician [[J. Philippe Rushton]]<ref>Cernovzky, Z. Race and brain weight: a note on J.P. Rushton's conclusions. ''Psychological Reports''. 1990;66: 337-338.</ref><ref>Cernovsky, Z. and Litman, L. Re-Analyses of J.P. Rushton's Crime Data. ''Canadian Journal of Criminology''. 1993;'''35:'''(1):31–36. [[Doi (identifier)|doi]]:10.3138/cjcrim.35.1.31.</ref><ref>Cernovsky, Z. and Litman, L.C. Interpol Crime Statistics and Rushton's Racial Dogma. ''International Journal of Psychology and Cognitive Science''. 2019;5(2):53‑57.</ref><ref>Cernovsky, Z.Z. On the Similarities of American Blacks and Whites: A Reply to J. P. Rushton. ''Journal of Black Studies.'' 1995;25(6):672–679. doi:10.1177/002193479502500602. JSTOR 2784758.</ref><ref>Cernovsky, Z.Z. Intelligence and race: further comments on J.P. Rushton's work. ''Psychological Reports''. 1991;68:481-482</ref> and more recently also of [[Richard Lynn]].<ref>Cernovsky, Z. Race and gender in methodologically flawed work of Richard Lynn. ''International Journal of Psychology Sciences''. 2019;1(1):1-2.</ref>
His work also focused on demonstrating the lack of content and criterion validity of the [[Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology]] (SIMS), a widely used test that excessively frequently misclassifies legitimate medical patients as [[Malingering|malingerers]], especially those patients who experience the psychological polytraumatic symptom pattern (e.g., survivors of motor vehicle collisions, injured war veterans, civilians injured in industrial accidents), thus falsely depriving injured persons of medical attention, therapies, and of legally owed insurance benefits.<ref>Cernovsky, Z.Z., Mendonça, J.D., Ferrari, J.R. Meta-Analysis of SIMS Scores of Survivors of Car Accidents and of Instructed Malingerers. ''Archives of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences''. 2020; 3(1): 01-11.</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cernovsky, Zack Zdenek}} [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Canadian psychologists]] [[Category:Canadian expatriates in Switzerland]] [[Category:Canadian people of Czech descent]] [[Category:Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario]] [[Category:University of Bern alumni]] [[Category:University of Zurich alumni]] [[Category:University of Maryland, College Park faculty]]