Detecting Malingered COVID‐19 Symptoms Using the Verifiability Approach

The findings support the VA's validity in distinguishing genuine from feigned symptom reports in health-related contexts. However, the fully online design, lack of factual verification, and potential for misreporting represent key limitations. Future studies should replicate these results in face-to-face or ecologically valid settings and extend the VA framework to the study of symptom dissimulation.