The polygraph, known more commonly as the “lie detector,” has a long and controversial history as a forensic tool, but it has also been used in a variety of other contexts, including employment ...

Anyone applying to become a minister in Madagascar’s new government will be subjected to lie detector tests to root out those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NEXSTAR) — A recent polygraph test taken in Orange County, more specifically, on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” ...

The polygraph is not a lie detector but rather an instrument that measures a person’s physiological changes to questions posed by the examiner. An elevated physiological response to a particular ...

Madagascar's military leader, President Michael Randrianirina, announced Thursday that anyone applying to become a minister in the new government will undergo lie detector tests to screen for ...

The head of a federal agency was reportedly given a polygraph test after an apparent news leak — even though such “lie detection” measures are considered junk science. As Politico reports, a lie ...

In February of 1994, the FBI arrested Aldrich Ames, who had been a CIA employee for 31 years. Ames was arrested and charged with espionage. He was a Russian spy. For nine years, he had been passing ...