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lie detector
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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lie de·tec·tor
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n.
an instrument for determining whether a person is telling the truth by testing for physiological changes considered to be associated with lying.Compare with polygraph.
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Insurance phone spies on the line; Lie detector is new weapon in war against [pounds sterling]3bn fraud bill.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 4/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...TOBY WALNE LIE detectors are to be tested...fraudulent. The lie detector machines eavesdrop...At present, lie detectors are being tested...successful. The detectors analyse claimants...which can betray lies or unusually nervous...the so-called lie detector ...
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The Lie Detector in Limbo
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/19/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...in the government take a lie-detector test. The president felt the lie detector was the only way to keep...game plan. Alas, the lie detector has fallen on hard times...false signals. The retired detectors are being collected in a...
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Lie and love detectors for cell phones.(Infotech)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 7/17/2004; 700+ words
; ...success in telling lies than in sticking to...doublespeak, outright lies and white-collar...because a more effective lie and love detector will...behind this is a lie detector small enough to be...In addition to lie detectors, Dave Watson, chief...than its accuracy as a ...
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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FED: Insurance companies try lie detectors on some claimants
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 12/3/1998; 462 words
; ...Insurance companies try lie detectors on some claimants By...are resorting to lie detector tests as a tool in...downhill," he said. "Lie detector tests are...admitted using lie detector tests in some cases...had never used lie detector tests and had no ...
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Alas, the lie detector has fallen on hard times
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/21/1987; ; 677 words
; ...in the government take a lie-detector test. The president felt the lie detector was the only way to keep...game plan. Alas, the lie detector has fallen on hard times...false signals. The retired detectors are being collected in a...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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'Lie Detectors' probes the truth
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 4/1/2007; ; 618 words
; THE LIE DETECTORS: THE HISTORY OF...the first "lie detector." This was exciting...States that the lie detector is used to interrogate...submit to a lie-detector test. Yet even...author of "The Lie Detectors," is a history...
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It's the truth: Lie detector use is on the wane
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/5/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...the use of pre-employment lie detector tests went into effect Dec...already limited the used of lie detectors, and when President Reagan...come from administering lie detector tests, said President Joseph...polygraph tests are outlawed. Lie detectors remain legal, ...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Perspective: Running rings around lies; A major insurance company has recently revealed plans to use telephone lie detectors in an attempt to clamp down on fraudulent claims. But what exactly does a lie detector test involve and can the results be trusted? Ross Reyburn and Claire Hills speak to scientists to find out.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 10/26/2001; 700+ words
; ...proper name for this sort of lie detection is a polygraph test...to popular belief, the term lie detector test is incorrect. 'The polygraph does not detect lies - it measures the arousal which...the age of 20 did you ever lie to get yourself out of trouble...Birmingham, doesn't view ...
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Lie detector roulette
Magazine article from: Mother Jones; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of Roche had to submit to a lie detector test. No problem, he shrugged...history and validity of lie detector technology. He soon discovered...Toronto, who dismiss lie detectors as no more valuable than...reliable." Indeed, the lie detector is so untrustworthy that ...
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Research panel says lie detectors too inaccurate for national security use
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Dateline: WASHINGTON Lie detectors are not accurate enough to...of its shortcomings. Lie detectors measure heartbeat, blood...allowing them to beat a lie detector, the report said. Most uses of lie detectors involve examining individuals...tell the difference between ...
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lie detector
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
lie detector ( polygraph ) Electronic device that may be capable of detecting lies when used by a trained examiner. The lie detector monitors such factors as heart rate, breathing rate and perspiration, all of which may be affected when a person lies.
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The Lie Detector
Book article from: American Decades
THE LIE DETECTOR Policemen Inventors In the early 1920s...reservations about the reliability of lie-detector readings remain, and they continue...of law. Sources: Eugene B. Block, Lie Detectors: Their History and Use (New York...
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gasp
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...x2018;gasp out’ words in an urgent attempt at speech, but this is a physiological misuse of the term. Lie detectors rely in part on a deep, gasping breath when the subject is asked a question that activates his guilt. In unconsciousness...
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Lying
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...both dramatic and comic lies. Social scientists...concern, the need to detect lies. In a 1917 Journal of...efforts to construct a lie detection technology...the accuracy of this lie detector became a matter of scientific...the polygraph detects lies at rates that are better...
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polygraph
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...physiological characteristics, such as a person's pulse and breathing rates, used esp. as a lie detector. ∎ a lie-detector test carried out with a machine of this type. DERIVATIVES: pol·y·graph...
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