The Energy Department plans to end its across-the-board polygraph testing of job applicants and employees, according to a rule that department officials published in the Federal Register. The policy ...

Table I-1 illustrates the effects of accuracy and thresholds on the false positive index, with four illustrative base rates (the false positive index is the number of false positive test results for ...

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 ...

Can a lie detector be made more honest? Yes, according to tech company Converus, if the human element is removed from the test administration process. It’s been 100 years since the invention of the ...

When it comes to lying, our brains are much more likely to give us away than sweaty palms or spikes in heart rate, new evidence suggests. The study found that scanning people's brains with fMRI, or ...

It’s the end of an era for the polygraph. The lie-detector test has been the dominant investigation tool for detecting deception for the last 60 years. But, according to a recent statement from the ...

The polygraph or lie detector test has been in use for over 100 years. It has been heralded as a technological marvel that allows investigators to accurately determine when someone is lying and when ...