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 ...

The Department of Homeland Security has started giving employees lie detector tests to find out who is leaking details about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NEXSTAR) — A recent polygraph test taken in Orange County, more specifically, on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” ...

In February of 1994, the FBI arrested Aldrich Ames, who had been a CIA employee for 31 years. Ames was arrested and charged with espionage. He was a Russian spy. For nine years, he had been passing ...

The head of a federal agency was reportedly given a polygraph test after an apparent news leak — even though such “lie detection” measures are considered junk science. As Politico reports, a lie ...

Recently I stumbled upon a psychology research report, “Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future.” Given the ...

Since ancient times, the art of discerning truth from lies has captivated human curiosity. In our recent book, Pathological Lying: Theory, Research, and Practice, my co-author, Drew Curtis, and I ...