The federal government currently administers polygraphs to government employees in a number of agencies, including the NSA and CIA. The polygraphs work by measuring and recording a person's ...

She grabbed it and read the name. It was from a lieutenant with the sex crimes unit of the Wichita Police Department.

But just how often it can catch you in a lie is shrouded in controversy. Regardless, thousands of polygraphs are given each year in the US, alone, for everything from government clearance ...

Tapp’s case is a great example of how polygraphs can contribute to wrongful convictions. So it’s fair to say that I was concerned when I came across a number of articles recently stating that ...

Polygraph, commonly known as the lie detector test, has been used for many decades to determine if the person being tested is telling the truth. I think such tests should be conducted regularly in ...

Polygraphs have been used around the world, in countries such as Japan, Russia and China, but the technology remains largely the same. "There's a fairly long pre-test interview that lasts for ...

Lie detectors - or polygraphs - measure a number of bodily responses, such as blood pressure or sweaty palms, to detect traits associated with lying. Advocates claim that when carried out by ...

He replied that he would do whatever the Judiciary Committee asked him to, but noted that polygraphs are inadmissible in federal court because they are “unreliable.” That fact is not in ...

A Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) report indicated that Ghoshs answers were "deceptive on certain important issues ...

The man who inspired Netflix's Mindhunter series has revealed why lie detector tests are no good when it comes to serial ...

There’s been a long history of hype around technologies that promised to turn lie detection from an art to a science, only to ...