Polygraph examiners may not offer an opinion on the test subject's guilt or innocence, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday in granting a new trial in a robbery and assault case. The Appellate ...

Timothy Busfield’s polygraph results in his child sexual abuse case might not be the smoking gun he hopes for. Mooney, who is also the Seminar Program Chair for the National Polygraph Association and ...

An examiner keeps an eye on how various measures change in response to particular topics or questions. Credit: DENker/Wikimedia Commons Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who's accused ...

The polygraph, known more commonly as the “lie detector,” has a long and controversial history as a forensic tool, but it has also been used in a variety of other contexts, including employment ...

Polygraph examiners ask a standard list of questions about drug use, criminal history, foreign contacts and mishandling of classified information. After the exam, an analyst scrutinizes the results ...

As a college senior in the 1960s, I applied for a government job that required a high level security clearance. I spent an hour or so at the FBI office hooked up to a polygraph. I still have rather ...

When they do a polygraph test, thy first measure your baseline responses by asking you simple questions like stating your name by the test giver and a simple yes or no from you The rest of the test is ...