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POLYGRAPH - CVSA LINKS . Back issues of the APA quarterly Polygraph and other APA publications may be ordered from this site. Federation of American Scientists Polygraph Resource Page. Provides government documents as well as commentary on polygraphs. Beijing Police College Polygraph Center.
In Chinese. Israel Polygraph Examiner Association. Limited English content. The James Madison Project. Dedicated to promoting government accountability and the reduction of secrecy, this site includes a “polygraph documents vault.” The site’s important links section also contains useful information on polygraph abuses. No. Polygraph. com. This site provides a wealth of information on polygraph screening, especially as used by the FBI. In the process of merging with Anti.
Polygraph. org. Polygraph Association of South Africa. In English. Polygraph for Screening. This web page maintained by Professor Charles R. Honts of Boise State University provides studies on polygraph screening in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. The Polygraph Place. A website run by polygraphers for polygraphers.
Includes a message board, but that board is censored. Posts that openly reject the validity of polygraphs are deleted. Sting Publications. Doug Williams’ manual, “How to Sting the Polygraph” may be ordered via this website.
Williams also provides a frequently asked questions list and testimonials from his customers. Stop. Polygraph. com. Provides documentation of polygraph abuse, especially by the U. S. Department of Defense Polygraph Institute (Do. DPI). Army’s Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Do. DPI is responsible for the training of all federal polygraphers, including those from non- Do. D agencies like the CIA, FBI, and U.
S. Do. DPI is also responsible for all federally- funded research of polygraphs. The Do. DPI website provides little substantive information, however. U. S. This Department of Energy page provides the Department’s polygraph examination regulation and implementation plan, as well as transcripts of the Department’s public hearings on polygraph policy. It also provides other government documents relevant to polygraph.
Briefing Paper Number 4. The ACLU has long favored protective legislation against indiscriminate “lie detector” testing in the American workplace, not only because it is unreliable, but also because it is an extreme invasion of privacy. For example, in order to establish “normal” physiological reactions of the person being tested, “lie detector” examiners ask questions that purposely embarrass, frighten and humiliate workers. An ACLU lawsuit in l. North Carolina were routinely asked to answer such questions as “When was the last time you unintentionally exposed yourself after drinking?” and “Who was the last child that got you sexy?” Polygraphs have been used by unscrupulous employers to harass union organizers and whistle- blowers, to coerce employees into “confessing” infractions they did not commit, and to falsely implicate fellow employees. American Psychological Association.
WASHINGTON — The use of the polygraph (lie detector test) is not nearly as valid as some say and can easily be beaten and should never be admitted into evidence in courts of law, say psychologists from two scientific communities who were surveyed on the validity of polygraphs. This survey appears in the June issue of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Journal of Applied Psychology. Beardsley, Tim. Aldrich Ames, passed routine polygraph exams as an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, as did another former CIA employee and convicted spy, Harold J.
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. Civil Liberties Association believes that there is convincing evidence to suggest that the use of the polygraph is arbitrary, subjective, biased toward accusations of guilt and claims of very high validity are scientifically indefensible. However, even if one is not willing to be persuaded by evidence on these matters, one must admit, at the very least, that there is no scientific opinion whatsoever concerning the validity of polygraph testing. In fact, there is extremely wide divergence over the validity of the test. EARLY THIS CENTURY, a box with a few wires sticking out and flickering needles that jumped across a chart recorder would probably have impressed the average person. Electric gadgets were newish inventions back then. An uncritical enthusiasm for science was in the air.
These are the most charitable explanations for the origin of the lie detector. Faller, Kathleen Coulborn. Excerpt: Results: Polygraph findings were unrelated to other evidence of likelihood of sexual abuse, that is to the child’s statements or demonstrations of sexual abuse, medical evidence, psychological symptoms, or indicators of sexual abuse from sources other than the child. When alleged offenders passed polygraphs, criminal prosecution was not sought. However, failing polygraphs was not predictive of criminal prosecution. Decisions by child protective services to substantiate or not were not consistently related to any indicators of possible sexual abuse. Decisions by professional evaluators about sexual abuse were best predicted by children’s psychological symptoms.
Fitzpatrick, Robert B. From the conclusion: The use of polygraph results should not be permitted in civil trials. In this regard, even if both parties agree to stipulate as to the polygraph results, courts should not admit the results into evidence due to issues concerning inaccuracy and prejudicial effects. In particular, there is a tremendous potential for abuse in sexual harassment trials. Although the typical sexual harassment case may result in a swearing match between the alleged victim and the alleged harasser, the introduction of polygraph results as evidence would be an invitation to disaster for many plaintiffs.
While at first blush plaintiffs’ attorneys may salivate at the thought of putting a polygrapher on the stand to testify that the plaintiff is a truth teller, one can foresee that, given the imbalance of resources, defendants will trot out polygrahers, more often than plaintiffs. Abstract: The so- called “control” question “test” (CQT) has been criticized on methodological and ethical grounds by psychophysiologists. The ethical analyses have focussed on the possibility that the CQT’s interrogative features may elicit false confessions, but an empirical problem is that the rate of these false confessions is difficult to establish.
In this conceptual note I raise a *logico- * ethical problem for the CQT, called The Polygrapher’s Dilemma (PD). The two horns of PD are damage the innocent examinee classified as deceptive, and damage to those examinee’s psychological well being who are classified as non- deceptive to the relevant questions, and who are not even debriefed concerning their feelings of unease about issues raised by the comparison, so- called “control” questions.
Although there may be arguments about which of the PD’s two horns are more serious, there is no doubt that both are, in an absolute sense, ethically negative. Nor is there an ethically justifiable third alternative available. It is also contended that not only practitioners but also researchers (who use the CQT in laboratory, “mock- crime” situations) are affected by PD. Finally, I note that PD exists only for the CQT procedure, and not for the more standardized and scientifically based Guilty Knowledge Technique. From the abstract: Although the title of Honts et al.’s paper suggests that it will be a reply to the specific, logico- ethical problem of the CQT polygraph (the Polygrapher’s Dilemma), the text deals only tangentially with this logico- ethical problem, and engages, instead, in a diffuse discussion of related, but different, ethical, methodological, and empirical problems of the CQT polygraph. This paper seeks to restore some clarity to the discussion by reminding us of certain basic distinctions among logico- ethical, ethical, methodological, and empirical problems.
In the light of these distinctions, the *relevant* literature, and the essential characteristics of the CQT (which continue to be obscured by the use of systematically misleading terminology), I stand by my claim that, on the ethico- logical grounds (i. CQT Polygrapher’s Dilemma formulated in my 1. Abstract: From both a scientific and an applied psychophysiological point of view, the related but different ideas of using physiological measures to differentiate and detect deception are of considerable potential interest. This paper’s primary concern is with psychophysiological detection, and it is mainly focussed on the North American “Control” Question “Test” (CQT). The treatment is disinterested in the sense that there is an insistence on employing fundamental terms in a logically consistent way.
Following a detailed description of the CQT, and an analysis of it and related psychophysiological deception procedures, it is suggested that, by and large, the North American research psychophysiological community has failed to measure up to the standards of disinterestedness with respect to the psychophysiological detection of deception. Instead it has adopted an . As the most cognate organization, the international psychophysiological research community needs to take a more active and disinterested role in this salient purported application of psychophysiology–the detection of deception. Government Executive Magazine.“Agencies, employees spar over lie detector tests.”1. September 2. 00. 0. An unusually well- researched article on polygraph security screening. Within a few days of each other in June, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and Attorney General Janet Reno had to respond to internal security breaches.
Both were faced with the option of hooking their employees up to polygraph equipment that would measure their blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and sweat gland activity- and ostensibly would uncover guilt. Honts, Charles R., Kircher, John C., & Raskin, David C. Abstract: We respond to Furedy’s (1.