A tremor in the blood
by David Thoreson Lykken · first published 1981
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>> To prepare for the test, I read A Tremor in the Blood by David T. Lykken. The book described the use of control versus relevant questions as well as countermeasure such as butt-clenching. This explains that other thing I read yesterday, in a different article…
on “Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst” ↗…University of Minnesota Department of Psychology that I join during each school year. The late Professor Lykken himself wrote a whole book on why polygraph examinations are a bad idea, http://www.amazon.com/A-Tremor-In-The-Blood/dp/0306457822 and his writings helped convince the Minnesota legislature not to allow polygraph results for any judicial or employment-screening purpose in the state. It's ludicrous that the federal…
on “The Lie Behind the Lie Detector [pdf]” ↗…something on the HN front page i have direct personal experience with (CIA polygraph exams in general not this specific one). >Then she asked if I'd read about polygraphs. I said I'd just finished A Tremor in the Blood. She claimed she'd never heard of it. I was surprised. It's an important book about her field, I would have thought all polygraphers knew of it. They'll also ask you about antipolygraph.org which is…
on “Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst” ↗…details in advance when making up a story. [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0... http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20079233,00.... http://www.amazon.com/A-Tremor-In-The-Blood/dp/0306457822 [2] http://leb.fbi.gov/2011/june/evaluating-truthfulness-and-det... https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=5GjTLtibmXYC&oi=...
on “How a Machine Learned to Spot Depression” ↗