Combining skin conductance and forced choice in the detection of concealed information

Psychophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 814-822

  Meijer, Ewout H ^a   Smulders, Fren T Y ^a   Johnston, James E ^a,b   Merckelbach, Harald L G J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Best Evidence Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Concealed Information Test; Guilty Knowledge Test; Polygraph testing; Symptom Validity Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; RECUMBENCY; SELF REPORT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; LIE DETECTION; MALE; PERSONALITY TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34547918845     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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