In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a ...

Introduction: Plotting the hyperbola of deception -- "A thieves' quarter, a devil's den": the birth of criminal man -- "A vast plain under a flaming sky": the ...

Medieval interrogators often forced suspects to lick a burning hot poker. Truth tellers, they said, would remain unscathed. The lie-detector test is not so different, suggests Ken Alder, an associate ...

It used to be that the most feared instrument in the arsenal of a police investigator was the polygraph, or lie detector machine. Now the most feared thing might be a simple microphone and a laptop ...

Get all of the “In Russia, automated teller machines take money from you” jokes out of your system now, because it turns out that Russian ATMs really are getting more advanced than their Western ...

Lying is an important human capacity and a necessary, frequently deployed skill for greasing the rails of social commerce. The emergence of lying, a complex cognitive operation, represents a major ...

Actress Sydney Sweeney just delivered the moment fans have been whispering about for years — and she did it while strapped to a Vanity Fair lie detector machine. Sitting with fellow “Housemaid” star ...