Effect of Habituation to Least Threatening Zone Questions of the Most Threatening Zone Comparison Questions in Psychophysiological Veracity Examinations
- Issue date
- 2011
- Publisher
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Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM
- Source
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European Polygraph 2011, nr 3-4, s. 99-106.
- ISSN
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1898-5238
- Subjects
- Prawo; Psychologia
- Keywords
- polygraph examination; Psychophysiological Veracity Examination; Quadri-Track Zone Comparison Technique
Abstract
"During the past 39 years of conducting psychophysiological veracity (PV) examinations,
this author observed a phenomenon wherein the responsivity of
the confi rmed deceptive and truthful examinees remained constant and often
increased with each chart collected on the relevant questions if deceptive or
the control questions if truthful.
Th is author suspected that the reason for this occurrence was due to the truthful
examinee’s habituation to the relevant questions and the deceptive examinee’s
habituation to the control questions, as a result of their psychological set
being focused on the tests questions having the greatest threat to their security."(...)
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