{"title":"Anticlimax Dampening Concept: It Does Exist","authors":"Tuvia Shurany","doi":"10.1515/ep-2016-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2016-0007","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years some examiners have tried to change the basic concepts of polygraphy by introducing questionable changes. I am still unsure whether these changes have any scientifi c grounds or simply served as an attempt to challenge the theories of our pioneers and in doing so to enter the hall of polygraph fame. One of these concepts was a psychological set which received a new name of “salience.” Many years ago the issue of the name versus its meaning was addressed by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 scene 2 “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115516820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Fundamentals of Polygraph Practice","authors":"Stanley M. Slowik, F. Horvath","doi":"10.1515/ep-2016-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2016-0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121158016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examiner Approach and its Impact on Polygraph Results","authors":"T. Amsel","doi":"10.1515/ep-2016-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2016-0002","url":null,"abstract":"When categorising the diff erent approaches of polygraph examiners toward their examinees on a continuum, one end of the spectrum is taken by the interrogative approach, and the other by the diagnostic approach. What are they? Examiners practicing the interrogative approach perceive polygraph test as a way of extracting confessions from the examinee using the polygraph instrument as a threatening or intimidating tool making the examinee confess, while examiners holding to the diagnostic approach perceive the polygraph as a scientifi c tool that establishes the examinee’s truthfulness or deceptiveness.","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"42 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120868318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparation to Experimental Testing of the Potential from Using Facial Temperature Changes Registered with an Infrared Camera in Lie Detection","authors":"J. Widacki, Michał Widacki, J. Antos","doi":"10.1515/ep-2016-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2016-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122677126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discoverers of the Galvanic Skin Response","authors":"J. Widacki","doi":"10.1515/ep-2015-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2015-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122582920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decision Accuracy for the Relevant-Irrelevant Screening Test: Influence of an Algorithm on Human Decision-Making","authors":"Donald J. Krapohl, W. Goodson","doi":"10.1515/ep-2015-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2015-0007","url":null,"abstract":"1 Th is is the third in a series of research articles on the RI screening test. Th e authors would like to express appreciation to the following examiners for participating in this study: Gus Trevino, Derick Walker, Timothy Upright, Daniel Scheel, Jerry Lesikar, Bill Horton, Steven Davis, Eddie Hutchinson, Dana Wickland, Leo Perez, and Eduardo Garza. We also are grateful to Mark Handler for his helpful suggestions to an earlier version of this paper. Th e fi rst author is a Past President of the American Polygraph Association, and author of the Elsevier textbook Fundamentals of Polygraph Practice. Th e second author is President of the American Polygraph Association, and contributing author to past articles in this publication. Th e views expressed are the authors’ own, and do not necessarily represent those of the Department of Defense, US Government, or the Texas Department of Public Safety. Comments can be sent to Krapohld@gmail.com. DOI: 10.1515/ep-2015-0007","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130083296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charts of the ‘Innocent’ Subjects in the Searching Peak of Tension Tests","authors":"Ryszard Jaworski","doi":"10.1515/ep-2015-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2015-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The assessment of physiological parameters of the innocent subjects in the SPOT in the presented cases has its limits, while a comparison of these parameters with the charts of the perpetrators causes doubts as to the methodological soundness (lack of a sufficient number of cases). There are as many as four reasons hindering the assessment. First of all, the number of presented charts of the innocent subjects is small; they are practically isolated cases and with tests featuring mainly names (given names, pseudonyms). Secondly, I did not repeat the SPOT if it did not cause any reaction and at the same time the preliminary assessment of the CQT charts was positive for the subjects. Th is makes it impossible to compare physiological parameters of the subject in at least two SPOT charts in order to assess the evolution of the emotional activation. The parameters recorded during a SPOT were compared with the fi rst CQT chart, but this article does not present them. Another problem results from the fact that the category of the ‘innocent’ includes the charts of two subjects (the witness of the behaviour of the possible perpetrator after the murder and the instigator of a murder). I included them in the groups of the ‘innocent’ only because the version before the examination assumed that they were the murderers, while their reactions to the control questions in the CQT were greater than those to the fundamental relevant question (‘Did you do it?’). As I mentioned above, physiological parameters of the two men in the consecutive CQT charts hinted at intensifi cation of emotions and the subjects themselves also displayed external manifestations of emotions. In principle, their charts should be presented in the group of ‘the perpetrators’. Although the manifestations of emotions were distinct, their assessment was subjective – and it cannot be verifi ed. Both subjects interfered with the examination: one refused to have his blood pressure and pulse recorded and the other interrupted the examination. This behaviour is typical for ‘the perpetrators’. Both subjects were involved in the cases, but not in the way the investigators had originally assumed. Let me add here that this is my opinion and it has not been backed by legal decisions. Physiological parameters of the innocent subjects presented in the SPOT charts can only be assessed visually, because the Lafayette polygraphs which I used did not record them digitally. A visual assessment is not precise and to great extent subjective. Only one parameter – the pulse rate – lends itself to digital assessment, but with the reservations mentioned above.","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131390557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using the Polygraph Validation Test (PVT) in Solving Conflicted Polygraph Results and Confirming Deliberate Distortions by Examinees","authors":"Tuvia Shurany","doi":"10.1515/ep-2015-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2015-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper involves fifty-one re-examinations of original polygraph tests that resulted in conflicted outcomes and examinations where deliberate distortions were believed to have been employed. The Polygraph Validation Test (PVT) was successfully employed in these re-examinations to rectify the original problems and/or confirm attempts by examinees at countermeasures or augmentations.","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121317714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Theoretical Analysis of the Directed Lie Question (DLC)","authors":"Nathan J. Gordon","doi":"10.1515/ep-2015-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2015-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128862969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selecting the Most Optimal Conditions for the Polygraph Examination","authors":"Vitas Saldžiūnas, A. Kovalenko","doi":"10.1515/ep-2015-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ep-2015-0003","url":null,"abstract":"We wrote (Saldžiūnas and Kovalenka 2008, 2009a, b, c, d), just like other authors, about the conditions of the polygraph examination which enable obtaining maximally objective and reliable results. Let us remember that the stimulus (or the question) applied and the environment are among factors important for the examination. Th e impact of the stimulus on the responses depends on the way the question is formulated (Kniazev et al. 2012) and on the depth, timbre, and duration of the voice","PeriodicalId":183867,"journal":{"name":"European Polygraph","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122133865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}