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The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science by Melissa M. Littlefield

By Melissa M. Littlefield

Actual and imagined machines, together with psychological microscopes, concept translators, and polygraphs, have lengthy promised to become aware of deception in humans. Now, through fMRI and EEG, neuroscientists appear to have came upon what scientists, legal professionals, and cops have looked for over a century: foolproof lie detection. yet are those new lie detection applied sciences any varied from their predecessors? The mendacity mind is the 1st publication to discover the cultural heritage of an array of lie detection applied sciences: their ideological assumptions, the medical and fictional literatures that create and marketplace them, and the literacies required for his or her interpretation.

By studying a wealthy archive of fabrics approximately lie detection—from technology to technological know-how fiction— The mendacity mind demonstrates the interconnections of technology, literature, and pop culture within the improvement and dissemination of deception detection within the American cultural mind's eye. As Melissa Littlefield demonstrates, neuroscience isn't really development a extra actual lie detector; it really is easily recycling centuries-old ideologies approximately deception and its detection.

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How your pulse throbbed with terror; how, though unmoved to outward appearance, you caught your breath, and your laboring lungs struggled under the dread that your wrong doing was discovered and you would be branded—as I trust you will now be branded, Mr. Welter, when the evidence in this case and the testimony of those who witnessed my test are produced before a jury—a deliberate and scheming thief. (1910a, 183) Implied here are assumptions not only about the instruments, their expert interpretation, and their ability to record emotion but also about their real, practical admissibility in courts of law, as we shall see in the next section concerning William Marston and the Frye v.

42 As a result of such diatribes, internal cohesion between polygraphists was ultimately neither sound nor durable, and such divisions often made external “allies” wary of endorsing what they viewed to be a problematic technology. Of particular interest is the judicial reaction to the polygraph, because it highlights the necessity of accruing allies in a search for authorization while it simultaneously reveals the uncertain internal dynamics of applied psychology and, by the 1920s and 1930s, police science.

Münsterberg proposed that the psychologist could better regulate the “the treachery of human memory” (44) by bringing speci‹c instruments and techniques to bear on issues of witness testimony, criminal interrogation, and confession. There is thus really no doubt that experimental psychology can furnish amply everything which the court demands: it can register objectively the symptoms of the emotions and make the observation thus independent of chance judgment, and, moreover, it can trace emotions through involuntary movements, breathing, pulse, and so on, where ordinary observation fails entirely.

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