In the course of the committee’s work, we reviewed some material on the origin and history of polygraph testing. Some of this material is presented here because it provides interesting context and ...

The polygraph is not a lie detector but rather an instrument that measures a person’s physiological changes to questions posed by the examiner. An elevated physiological response to a particular ...

The available evidence indicates that in the context of specific-incident investigation and with inexperienced examinees untrained in countermeasures, polygraph tests as currently used have value in ...