Poligraf

Poligraf, secara popular dikenali sebagai pengesan bohong, mengukur dan merekod beberapa petunjuk fisiologi seperti tekanan darah, denyutan, pernafasan, dan kekonduksian kulit ketika subjek ditanya dan menjawab siri soalan. Dasar penggunaan poligraf adalah jawapan mengelirukan akan menghasilkan tindak balas fisiologi yang boleh dibezakan dari yang dikaitkan dengan jawapan tidak mengelirukan; poligraf adalah satu dari beberapa peranti yang digunakan bagi mengesan pembohongan.

Poligraf dicipta pada tahun 1921 oleh John Augustus Larson, seorang pelajar perubatan di Universiti California di Berkeley dan pegawai polis di Jabatan Polis Berkeley di Berkeley, California. Polygraf masuk dalam senarai Encyclopædia Britannica ciptaan terhebat, menggambarkan ciptaan ini sebagai "memiliki kesan besar pada kehidupan manusia sama ada lebih baik atau sebaliknya."

Nota

Bacaan lanjut
 Aftergood, Steven. "Polygraph Testing and the DOE National Laboratories." (Essays on Science and Society) Science. 3 November 2000: Vol. 290 no. 5493 pp. 939–940 DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5493.939.
 
 Bunn, Geoffrey C. The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector (Johns Hopkins University Press; 2012) 256 pages
Blinkhorn, S. (1988) "Lie Detection as a psychometric procedure" In "The Polygraph Test" (Gale, A. ed. 1988) 29-39.
 Cumming, Alfred (Specialist in Intelligence and National Security). "Polygraph Use by the Department of Energy: Issues for Congress." (Archive) Congressional Research Service. February 9, 2009.
 
Maschke, G.W. & Scalabrini, G.J. (2005) The Lie Behind the Lie Detector. 3rd ed. Available on-line at http://antipolygraph.org.
 
 McCarthy, Susan. "Passing the polygraph." Salon. March 2, 2000.
 
 
 Taylor, Marisa (Tish Wells contributed). "Feds expand polygraph screening, often seeking intimate facts." McClatchy. Thursday December 6, 2012.
 Woodrow, Michael J. "The Truth about the Psychophysiological Detection of Deception Examination 3rd Edition" Lulu Press. Ny, NY ISBN 978-1-105-89546-3

Pautan luar

 Police Polygraph Test Information
 American Polygraph Association
 AntiPolygraph.org, a website critical of polygraphy
 History of the Polygraph  by Jim Fisher
 Interviewing with an Intelligence Agency First person account of NSA interview (including polygraph)
 The Polygraph Museum Historical photographs and descriptions of polygraph instruments.
 Technology of Truth by Ken Alder. Magazine article about the history of the lie detector.
 The North American Polygraph and Psychophysiology: Disinterested, Uninterested, and Interested Perspectives  by John J. Furedy, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Spring/Summer 1996
Trial By Ordeal? Polygraph Testing In Australia
 New U.S. weapon: Hand-held lie detector, MSNBC April 9, 2008.
 "Thought Wave Lie Detector Measures Current in Nerves" Popular Mechanics, July 1937

Alat
Teknologi