Lie-Detection In The News

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How The CIA Let Down Its Guard
CBS News
(AP/Y. Allan, Jordan Royal Palace) (AP) The double agent was brought onto the CIA base in Afghanistan without first being given a polygraph test, ...

Would-be sheriff's employee arrested on child porn charge
The Northwest Florida Daily News
Burnette was undergoing a pre-employment polygraph test when he admitted to having child pornography on his computer. Investigators seized a computer from ...

How Brain Science Is Changing Our World
Metapsychology
Lynch discusses some interesting new fields such as neuroimaging-based lie detection and neuroimaging-based market research. Well-informed by his positions ...

Mind-reading technology threatens our liberties
Torrington Register Citizen
These devices range from the well-known polygraph to the latest and most disturbing device, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). ...

HRM, union disagree on 'employee privacy and dignity'
Metro Canada - Halifax
A contract offer that would give the Halifax Regional Municipality the right to administer polygraph tests to employees is being slammed by a local union ...

A new cognitive psychology article nearly every day
ScienceBlogs
The TV show Lie To Me focuses on the exploits of an expert in lie-detection as he solves perplexing crimes in his high-tech Washington laboratory. ...

High-profile figures in legal cases are staying silent
Times Herald-Record
His attorney, Erik Indzonka of Orange County Legal Aid Society, told police his client won't be taking a polygraph test, either. ...

Some believe lie detector not employed enough in Pittsburgh
Tribune Review
By Jodi Weigand Advanced technology has made the old polygraph with ink-filled needles and long sheets of paper a thing of the past. The new polygraph is ...

Trial over vet's beating tops year's police, court stories
Livingston Daily
Bravata has denied the allegations and he claims a polygraph test substantiates his claims of innocence. “From the start, I have told everybody I am not ...

Spilling the beans on Tiger cost Ashley Samson heavily
The Money Times
I took a polygraph test, for God's sake. Then she tarnishes my name in this town," rues Samson. Before Samson gets back to business, she intends to sue ...

STATE v. GABELBAUER
Leagle, Inc.
In Johnson, the statement was held to be a separate event even though a post-polygraph interview was temporally proximate to the actual test. ...

Investigation continues into missing boy
Mid-Hudson News
The boy's natural parents have taken and passed polygraph tests, but the mother's boyfriend refused to take a polygraph. Cory Byrd has been charged with ...

Cullen showed value of polygraphs
Allentown Morning Call
Therefore, in 1993, he was given two separate polygraph examinations, three months apart. On the basis of how he did on those ''lie detector'' tests, ...

Mesa to pay Phoenix to administer police-recruit polygraphs
AZ Central.com
29, 2009 08:55 AM Mesa has turned to Phoenix police for help in administering 50 polygraph examinations to applicants vying for 25 new officer positions ...

Polygraph usage on the rise
Allentown Morning Call
Police asked him to prove it by taking a polygraph test, commonly known as a lie detector test. The suspect agreed and sat in a padded chair near a two-way ...

Pioche Bar Robbed
Lincoln County Record
Polygraph tests have been administered in Las Vegas to several people of interest. The Sheriff's Department is also looking at surveillance tapes and over ...