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The CQT Polygrapher's Dilemma: Logico-Ethical Considerations for Psychophysiological Practitioners and Researchers
John J. Furedy, University of Toronto

Acknowledgments: This paper was orignally written with Dr. Drew C. Richardson, A Supervisory Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), member of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, a graduate of the Department of Defence Polygraph Institute's Basic Polygraph Examiner Course, and formerly a practitioner of the CQT in both simulated and field-criminal investigations. It was on the basis of his reflections about his field-polygraph experiences that we formulated the Polygrapher's Dilemma, and submitted this paper as a jointly-authored one. After acceptance of the paper for publication, the FBI requested Dr. Richardson to remove his name from authorship. He has acceeded to this request,and has ceeded me any "intellectual property rights to any ideas we have discussed" (July 22, 1993 letter). I have reluctantly agreed to honor Dr. Richardson's request, but emphasize my great indebtedness to him for the ideas presented in this paper. In addition, I also acknowledge the help of Drs. Gershon Ben-Shakhar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Wolf Boucsein (University of Wuppertal, Germany), and Larry Farwell (Human Brain Research Laboratory, Maryland, U.S.A.) for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Continue Reading This Article-->

The Psychophysiologist as Innocent Bystander: Ethical Mismatch
Robert J. Barry

Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, Australia

At the 7th International Scientific Meeting of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP), held in Greece in September-October 1994, I was appointed to the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the IOP. From this

perspective, I was especially pleased when John Gruzelier asked me to be the action editor for John Furedy's paper, "The North American Polygraph and Psychophysiology: Disinterested, Uninterested, and Interested Perspectives",

which is published in this issue of the International Journal of Psychophysiology. Furedy raises a number of important issues in this paper, in what can be recognized as his signature style when writing on contemporary issues -- logically-developed ideas presented in a relatively impassioned and provocative fashion.

The thrust of Furedy's paper is that the psychophysiological research community must adopt an impartial (disinterested) but active adjudicative role (as distinct from being merely uninterested) in the debate about the use of certain paradigms in the detection of deception.
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Agencies, employees spar over lie detector tests
National Journal

Within a few days of each other in June, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and Attorney General Janet Reno had to respond to internal security breaches. Both were faced with the option of hooking their employees up to polygraph equipment that would measure their blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and sweat gland activity-and ostensibly would uncover guilt.

In Richardson's case, the decision to go ahead with lie detector tests was prompted by missing computer hard drives at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico; Reno's headache was a leaked report from the Justice Department task force investigating Vice President Al Gore's fund-raising activities. Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J., recommended the polygraph tests to the Attorney General at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on June 27, but it remains an open question whether such testing will actually be carried out at Justice. Spokeswoman Obern Rainey says that because the campaign finance investigation is ongoing, the department won't comment on the issue. Continue Reading This Article-->

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