Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Susan Gaidos writes for New Scientist magazine about recent research at the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute. Excerpt: IT IS hard not to feel a little nervous. Andrew Ryan is trained to catch liars, and I am sitting in his lab at the US Department of Defence Polygraph Institute, preparing to lay a bald-faced whopper …
Brandon Spun reports in the 4 February 2002 issue of Insight magazine on experimental detection of deception/concealed information techniques. Spun specifically addresses Dr. Larry Farwell’s “brain fingerprinting” technique, Dr. Daniel Langleben’s fMRI research, and Dr. James Levine and collaborators’ thermal imaging technology.
United Press International (UPI) reports on the development of a new system that purports to detect lies. Excerpt: An experimental new lie detector that measures sudden flashes of heat from around the eyes may soon provide another line of defense against terrorism . . . “On the other hand, when thinking about the possibility of …