The National Academy of Sciences conducted an analysis of the Department of Energy’s security screening policy and published the report “The Polygraph and Lie Detection” (NAS Press) in 2003. The ...

First of all, what is a lie detector? It’s also known as a polygraph test. In movies and TV shows, it is used to decide if a suspect is innocent or guilty. But it’s not quite that simple. Recommended ...

FARGO - Rollie Rust admits he wasn't a big believer in lie detectors before he went to polygraph testing school. But after more than three decades of quizzing suspects and other subjects for ...

A Seattle scientist who has developed an electronic brain test that he says could improve our ability to force criminals to reveal themselves, identify potential terrorists and free those wrongly ...

Can you handle the truth? Regardless, it’s Tommy Platt’s job to find it out. Platt, an investigator with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, is also the agency’s polygraph examiner. Also known as a ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A new bill will be debated on Capitol Hill next year, which prevents police from requiring a possible sexual assault victim from being required to take a lie detector test.

Timothy Busfield’s polygraph results in his child sexual abuse case might not be the smoking gun he hopes for. “My biggest thing is, we don’t know what the questions were asked,” Lisa Mooney, a ...

Utah could soon ban government officials from asking alleged sexual assault victims to undergo a polygraph test — joining a growing list of states that bar the practice. Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt ...