Way to bang the drum there, Buck-o.
Its nice to see you found some productive and satisfying activity for your retirement.
Some day you'll have to do your own homework and cease being Georgie's lap-dog with the rhetorical questions about validated studies.
That's not the kind of question that stimulates a real intellectual discussion. Its the kind of question intended to handicap a conversation.
The real concern is this:
Are there any valid theories that support the linkeage between stimulus (not emotion) and physiolgical response. The null hypothesis for which would be that there are no linkeages between stimulus and physiological response.
Lykken is a fine start. Are you suggesting that there are no generalizable conclusions from Lykken to modern polygraph???
You can start here for some basic information about physiology, psychology and stimulus response theory
www.google.com just experiment with different keywords, and you'll see that there is an awful lot we know about things like emotion, physiology, stimulus, response, and measurement.
You're not seriously trying to have this conversation in an anti-polygraph circus are you.
If you were serious, you'd go back to school and start proving or disproving things for real.
Your just enjoying the opportunity to be self-righteous, and appease yourself of what you view as some form of personal shame for having got involved in polygraph.
There are more productive ways of improving things.
This is fun though.