THE POLYGRAPH: The Modern Lie Detector





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::Home Page::

Image Citations

(1) Photo/Drawing of Polygraph, Courtesy of Virtual Laboratory
      http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/technology/ (accessed 15 March 2005).

Endnotes

    1. David Thoreson Lykken, A Tremor In the Blood: Uses and Abuses of The Lie Detector (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981), 25.

    2. Raphael Demos, "Liars and Lying," The Yale Review 10 (January 1921):  373.

    3. National Research Council, The Polygraph and Lie Detection (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003), 19.

    4. "The colour of lying." The Economist 345 (December 6, 1997): 29, cited in Kerry Segrave, Lie Detectors: A Social History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004), 168.


::Origin of the Modern Polygraph::

Image Citations

(1) Mackenzie Polygraph, from James Allan Matte, Forensic Pscyhophysiology Using the Polygraph: Scientific Truth Verification – Lie Detection (Williamsville, NY: J.A.M. Publications, 1996), 19.

(2) Marston's Apparatus, from Matte, 21.

(3) John Larson's Portable Polygraph, from Matte, 22.

(4)The Keeler Polygraph, from Matte, 26.


Endnotes
     1. Ken Alder, “To Tell The Truth: The Polygraph Exam and the Marketing of American Expertise,” Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 24, no. 3 ( 1998): 489.

    2.  James Allan Matte, Forensic Pscyhophysiology Using the Polygraph: Scientific Truth Verification – Lie Detection (Williamsville, NY: J.A.M. Publications, 1996), 11.

    3. Cesare Beccaria, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments, 1775, http://www.dickinson.edu/~rhyne/232/Two/beccaria_text.html
(accessed 28 March 2005).

    4. David Thoreson Lykken, A Tremor In the Blood: Uses and Abuses of The Lie Detector (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981), 26.

    5. Kerry Segrave, Lie Detectors: A Social History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004), 12.

    6. Rodney Carliste, ed., Scientific American: Inventions and Discoveries, (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2004), 359; also discussed in Segrave, Lie Detectors: A Social History, 14.

    7. Eugene E. Levitt, “Scientific evaluation of the lie detector," Iowa Law Review 40 (Spring, 1955): 441; quoted in Segrave 2004, 14.

    8. Lucia C. Stanton,"Monticello Report: Jefferson and the Polygraph," http://www.monticello.org/reports/interests/polygraph.html (accessed 29 March 2005)

    9. Segrave, 11; Matte, 19.

    10. Matte, 20.

    11. William Moulton Marston, The Lie Detector Test (New York: Richard R. Smith, 1938), 51.

     12. John A. Larson, "Introduction," in Marston, 1.

     13. John A. Larson, Lying and Its Detection: A Study of Deception and Deception Tests (Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1969), 257-285; also noted in Matte, 22.

    14. National Research Council, The Polygraph and Lie Detection (Washington D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2003), 291.

    15. Marston, 26.

    16. Marston, 49.

    17. Matte, 24.
   
    18. Matte, 24.
 
    19. Matte, 25.
 
    20. Richard H. Underwood, “Truth Verifiers: From the Hot Iron to the Lie Detector,” Kentucky Law Journal (Spring 1995/1996), http://www.lexisnexis.com/ (accessed 20 March 2005).

    21. Alder, 513.

    22. Alder, 524.

    23.  "Now! Lie Detector Charts Emotional Effects of Shaving!," 1938. http://antipolygraph.org/documents/marston-razor-high-res.pdf  (accessed 11 April 2005).

    23. Fred E. Inbau, Lie Detection and Criminal Interrogation (Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1942), 4.

    24. Stan Abrams, The Complete Polygraph Handbook (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1989), 5.

    25. National Research Council, 303.

    26. Abrams, 46.

::The Invention of the Multi-Channeled Polygraph::

Image Citations

(1) Figure 4-1 "An Adminstration of a Polygraph Examination," from Stan Abrams,
The Complete Polygraph Handbook (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1989), 39.

Endnotes


    1. Matte, 164.

    2. Abrams, 42.

    3. Abrams, 41.

    4. Abrams, 4

    5. Marston, 51.

    6. Abrams, 4.

    7. Abrams, 4.

    8. Amina Memon, Aldert Vrij, and Ray Bull, Psychology and Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and Credibility, 2nd ed. (Chichester, West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2003), 22.


::Significance of the Modern Polygraph::

    1. Kerry Segrave, Lie Detectors: A Social History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004), 11.

    2. Marston, 43.

    3. Segrave, 39.

    4. Segrave, 101; also noted in Suzanne Bell, Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2004), 250. 

    5. Segrave, 101.

    6. Lawrence A. Farwell, "Brain Fingerprinting: Brief Summary of the Technology," May 9, 2000,     http://www.forensic-evidence.com/site/Behv_Evid/Farwell_sum6_00.html (accessed 30 March 2005).
  
    7. Ibid.

    8. American Polygraph Association, “Detection of Deception: Truth vs. Myth,” http://www.polygraph.org/voicestress.htm (accessed 30 March 2005).


::The Impact of the Polygraph in America::

Image Citations:
    (1) Still picture from the 2000 production of the film, Meet the Parents, http://law.gsu.edu/library/alr/hfoster.htm
         courtesy of the College of Law, Georgia State University (accessed 30 March 2005)
Endnotes:

  
  1.  Richard D. White, Jr., “Ask Me No Questions, Tell Me No Lies: Examining the Uses and Misuses of The Polygraph (Statistical Data Included),” Public Personnel Management 30, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 483, http://www.infotrac.com/ (accessed 03 Feb 2005).

     2. Marston, William Moulton, The Lie Detector test (New York: Richard R. Smith, 1938), 59.

    3. Ken Alder, “To Tell the Truth: The Polygraph Exam and the Marketing of American Expertise,” Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 24, no. 3 (1998): 497; also noted in Kerry Segrave, Lie Detectors: A Social History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004), 42.

    4. Stan Abrams, The Complete Polygraph Handbook (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1989), 10.

    5. Segrave, 48.

    6. Segrave, 62.

    7. Abrams, 5.

    8. Richard H. Underwood, “Truth Verifiers: From the Hot Iron to the Lie Detector,” Kentucky Law Journal (Spring 1995/1996), http://www.lexisnexis.com/ (accessed 20 March 2005).

    9. House Committee on Government Operations, “Use of Polygraphs as Lie Detectors by the Federal Government,” 89th Cong., 1st Sess. (1965), quoted in Office of Technology Assessment, Scientific Validity of Polygraph Testing: A Research Review and Evaluation—A Technical Memorandum  (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983), 32-34.
 
    10. National Research Council, The Polygraph and Lie Detection (Washington D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2003), 263; also noted in Richard D. White, Jr., “Ask Me No Questions, Tell Me No Lies: Examining the Uses and Misuses of The Polygraph (Statistical Data Included),” Public Personnel Management, 30, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 483, http://www.infotrac.com/ (accessed 03 Feb 2005).

    11. Barland, Gordon H., “The Polygraph Test in the USA and Elsewhere,” in Gale, Anthony, ed., The polygraph test: Lies, truth and science (London: Sage Publications, Inc., 1988), 77, from Ken Adler, “To Tell the Truth: The Polygraph Exam and the Marketing of American Expertise,” Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 24, no. 3 (1998): 491.
   
    12. Meet the Parents. dir. Jay Roach, Universal and Dreamworks Pictures. Universal City, CA :
Dreamworks, 2000, video recording.
   
    13. Abrams, 3.

    14. Benjamin Kleinmuntz, and Julian J. Szucko, “Lie Detection in Ancient and Modern Times: A Call for Contemporary Scientific Study,”American Psychologist, 39, No. 7 (July 1984), 775.
   
    15. Alder, 524.


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