PSYC 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ground Truth, Fidgeting, Political Correctness
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How to separate things when people are anxious or when the are lying. Donald trump - appeal seem to be truthful. Polygraph test act of lying generates physiological arousal. Used in canada and us as job screening but not admissible in court. Have you ever stolen something in your life. Series of repetition between these three questions. Innocent should have more arousal in control than relevant baseline questions find the generic level of anxiety. Scoring - assign negative if reactions is strong for relevant the control. Assign positive if reaction is weaker for relevant than control. Variation in examine credulity- criminals know how to beat it. Innocent suspects might sometimes react to strongly relevant questions. May think that police already made one mistake in suspecting them. Polygraph may be a continuation guilty people might sometimes react strongly to control questions - since deception on these may damage their case.
