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How do dishonest people reveal their deceit?

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By their actions; both verbal and non-verbal.

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What is Erasistratus famous for (304-250 BC)?

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Discovered puls of the king’s son rise when the king’s new wife was around.

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What are three main points that describe the “Method of the Ordeal (1500 AD)?

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  1. Truth could only be determined by a higher power.
  2. Truth was verified by survival and quickness of healing.
  3. Dying without a confession proved innocence.
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What is “Trial by Combat Ordeal?”

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God’s will shall determine who is innocent; David vs. Goliath.

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Trial by Torture Ordeal

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God will not let an innocent man confess (Spanish Inquisition).

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Red Hot Iron Ordeal

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Bengal Tribes of India placed hot iron on tongue 9 times. Liars would have a dry tongue and would be burned.

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The Ordeal of the Balance

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India 600 BC- Person weighed, interrogated and then weighed again. Increase in weight means your lies are weighing you down.

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Boiling Water Ordeal

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Africa- hand placed inboiling water. Burns = Lies.

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Red Water Ordeal

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Africa- Fed rice than drank 1 gallon red water. Throwing up = innocence.

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Donkey in Tent

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Middle East- Allah would silence the donkey. Tail coated in black pitch.

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Ordeal of rice chewing

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India- Guilty can’t swallow rice due to dry mouth.

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The Ordeal of Barley Bread

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Europe 1150 AD- Reserved for clergy

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What is Boccacio known for?

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Wrote about Erasistratus.

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When did Boccacio live?

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1313 to 1375 AD.

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What is Galileo known for?

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Invented the Pulsilogium.

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Who invented the “Pulsilogium” and in what year?

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Galileo, 1581 AD.

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What is Lancisi known for?

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He was a cardiologist that discovered mental state causes effects to te heart.

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In what year was the association between emotions and heart rate rate discovered? By whom?

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1728; Lancisi

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What is Daneil Defoe known for (1730)?

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Discovered that guilt always carries fear with it. Pulse was effective way of catching a criminal.

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What is Stephen Hales known for?

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First to measure blood pressure and pioneer of the sphygmomanometer (killed horses during experiments).

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What is Luigi Galvani known for?

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GSR- Galvonic Skin Reflex. Electriciy and frogs.

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In what year did Luigi Galvani make the discovery of GSR? What is GSR.

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  1. The Galvonic Skin Reflex (resistance to electrical current).
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Besides GSR, what else is Galvani credited with?

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Established the basis of Neurology and Nuerophsyiology.

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What is Dr Charles Cady known for?

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Chloroform caused confederate soldiers to give up info.

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What year and during what event did Dr Charles Cady make his discovery?
1862, Civil War.
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what is Sir Francis Dalton known for (1879)?
Developed a Word Association Psychological Test; gulity would have suffer inner conflict and give physical and verbal clues of guilt. First to use IRRELEVANT words.
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What is Ceasre Lombroso known for (1895)?
First person to use instrument to determine deception. First person to experiment on real criminal. Thought physical attributes would should criminality. Authored a book on the Spygmograph and the Plethysmogrgraoph. Invented Hydrospygmograph: Water filled drum that record pulse and blood volume which recorded onto a smoked drum.
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What is Angelo Mosso known for (1895)?
Studied lady with a hole in her skull- saw that rush of blood was induced by fear. Experiments centered on fear's affect on heart and respiration. Developed Sphygmomanometer and scientific cradle (balanced table that relied on a rush of blood to the head).
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What is A. Sticker known for (1897)?
Associated GSR with lie detection.
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What is Max Wertheimer known for (1904)?
Used word association together with a physiological recording device.
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What is S. Veraguth known for (1907)?
Used word association with a galvometer. Coined the term Psychogalvanic Reflex (later changed to EDR)
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What is Dr. Hugo Munsterberg known for (1908)?
Studied reaction of innocents (nervousness).
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What is Vittorio Benussi known for (1914)?
Studied Inhalation / Exhalation Ratios. Used Pnuemograph.
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What is Dr William Marston known for (1917)?
Discontinuous bood technique. Lost case in Frye vs. US where he was the "Lie Detector" examiner (not polygraph). Developed an R/I test and Gulity Knowledge test. Wonder woman
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What is Harold Burtt known for (1918)?
Harvard Professor who validated Benussi's I/E ratio, but preffered blood pressure. Validated Marston's tests.
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What is Dr. Ludwig Binswanger known for (1919)?
Outside Issues- Response may not be to specific crime but to other similar crime.
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Dr John Larson (1921)?
Developed first Polygraph that measured cardio and pnuemo. Student of Marston.
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Leonarde Keeler (1925)?
Father of Modern Day Polygraph Developed Kymograph (constant speed paper) Added GSR 1n 1938 Developed Peak of Tension (POT) and Searching POT tests Started first polygraph school
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Father Walter G. Summers (1932)?
First to use Control Questions Experimented with GSR
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Captain Clarence E. Lee, Berkely PD (1938)?
Developed Berkley Polygraph Instrument Developed control test to measure subject's response capability.
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Ray Birdwhistell (1952)?
Developed Kinesics (study of body movements, no universal tells)
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John E Reid (1953)
Developed countermeasure device. Comparison question technique. Reid Technique
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Cleve Backster (1961)
Zone Comparison Test CIA Polygraph Program Sacrifice Relevant Question Time Bars Standardized Quantification System- others could score chart 7 position scale: -3 thru 0 thru +3 Symptomatic Questions (absorb stress about outside issue). Phsycological set- Fear of relevant questions that hold the biggest threat if detected. Spot Analysis- Can't compare questions out of sequence. Outside Super Dampening (no response to relevant/irrelevant) Anti-Climax Dampening - Focus on one question (may not respond to murder question but might respond to gun question if they think the gun might be discrovered).
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Yes-No Technique (1965)
Answer all questions in both yes and no. Used by Morton Sinks.
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Richard O. Arther (1966)?
Used Clinical Approach- Analyzed body movement, voice etc, instead of trusting only his charts. Developed Arther II, which placed stimulus mark at the beggining and end of each question.
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Edward T. Hall (1966)
Introduced Proxamics- Intimate, Personal, Social and Public distances.
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Dr William Yankee (1968)
First to computerize the polygraph. First director of DoDPI.
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Paul Ekman (1972)
Studied facial expressions which he used to detect deception.
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Voice Stress Analysis (1973)
1996 DoDPI stated not accurate
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Dr James Allen Matte (1974)
Quadrazone (4 relevant question test) Tested the deaf
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David Raskin (1983-1987)
Directed Lie Technique
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DoDPI (1986)
Federal Govt Polygraph research and training.
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Employee Polygraph Protection Act (1988)
No pre-employment poly in private sector. Polygraphs allowed to resolve specific losses and injuries.
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Polyscore (1989)
First Automated Polygraph Scoring System Developed at John Hopkins
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Frye v United States (1923)
Arrested for murder. Confesses than recants.

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