The polygraph, known more commonly as the “lie detector,” has a long and controversial history as a forensic tool, but it has also been used in a variety of other contexts, including employment ...

The head of a federal agency was reportedly given a polygraph test after an apparent news leak — even though such “lie detection” measures are considered junk science. As Politico reports, a lie ...

Recently I stumbled upon a psychology research report, “Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future.” Given the ...

Since ancient times, the art of discerning truth from lies has captivated human curiosity. In our recent book, Pathological Lying: Theory, Research, and Practice, my co-author, Drew Curtis, and I ...

The truth about lie detectors is that we all really want them to work. It would be much easier if, when police were faced with two contradictory versions of a single event, there was a machine that ...

One of the critical steps in incident response is the interview. In previous articles I’ve looked briefly at the use of polygraph as a tool for identifying lies. Today, I will look at another ...

In this controlled experiment, an intensive training process is put to the test against a polygraph examination. The preparation focuses on stress management, physiological control, and understanding ...