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The Polygraph and Lie Detection COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ON THE POLYGRAPH STEPHEN E. FIENBERG (Chair), Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University JAMES J. BLASCOVICH, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara *JOHN T. CACIOPPO, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago RICHARD J. DAVIDSON, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison PAUL EKMAN, Department of Psychology and Human Interaction Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco DAVID L. FAIGMAN, Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco PATRICIA L. GRAMBSCH, Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis PETER B. IMREY, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Departments of Statistics and Medical Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. EMMETT B. KEELER, RAND Health, Santa Monica, California KATHRYN B. LASKEY, Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia KEVIN R. MURPHY, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park MARCUS E. RAICHLE, Department of Radiology and Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis RICHARD M. SHIFFRIN, Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington JOHN A. SWETS, BBN Technologies (emeritus), Tequesta, Florida PAUL C. STERN, Study Director ALEKSANDRA SLAVKOVIC, Consultant SUSAN R. McCUTCHEN, Research Associate DEBORAH M. JOHNSON, Senior Project Assistant * Served on the committee until May 28, 2002. v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. The Polygraph and Lie Detection BOARD ON BEHAVIORAL, COGNITIVE, AND SENSORY SCIENCES ANNE PETERSEN (Chair), W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan LINDA MARIE BURTON, Center for Human Development and Family Research, The Pennsylvania State University STEPHEN J. CECI, Department of Human Development, Cornell University EUGENE K. EMORY, Department of Psychology, Emory University ROCHEL GELMAN, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University ANTHONY W. JACKSON, Disney Learning Initiative, Burbank, California PETER LENNIE, Center for Neural Science, New York University MARCIA C. LINN, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley ELISSA L. NEWPORT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester CHARLES R. PLOTT, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology MICHAEL L. RUTTER, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London ARNOLD SAMEROFF, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan JAMES W. STIGLER, Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles JOHN A. SWETS, BBN Technologies (emeritus), Tequesta, Florida RICHARD F. THOMPSON, Neurosciences Program, University of Southern California WILLIAM A. YOST, Office of Research and the Graduate School, Loyola University Chicago CHRISTINE R. HARTEL, Director vi Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. The Polygraph and Lie Detection COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS JOHN E. ROLPH (Chair), Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California JOSEPH G. ALTONJI, Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics, Yale University ROBERT BELL, AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, New Jersey LAWRENCE D. BROWN, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania ROBERT M. GROVES, Director,