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Adaptive Polygraphy: A Different Perspective on the Theory and Practice of Polygraph Testing book cover

1st Edition

Adaptive Polygraphy A Different Perspective on the Theory and Practice of Polygraph Testing

By Avital Ginton Copyright 2027
352 Pages 24 Color Illustrations
by CRC Press

As we move deeper into the 21st century, this book intends to advance the practice and science of polygraphy by offering a different perspective. Rather than dismissing individual and situational variability as irrelevant “noise” to be controlled or ignored, it argues that such variability should be addressed through an adaptive approach to polygraph testing. Inspired in part by the growing... Read more

Part I. Foundations and Theoretical Background  1. Introduction  2. Pursuing Logical Considerations in Developing the Rationale Behind the Design of the Polygraph Test Methods in the First Few Decades of its Usage - A Hypothetical Logic-Based Evolution  3. From What We Have Learned About CQT While Pursuing Its Hypothetical Evolution Toward Contemporary Polygraph Testing  4. Attention and Fundamental Attention-Focus Dynamics as the Core Contemporary Rationale for the CQT: A Preliminary Overview  5. Contemporary Polygraph Testing: Getting Used to Thinking In Line With the Attention-Focused Rationale  6. Essentials of the Relevant Issue Gravity (RIG) Strength - A Theoretical Framework for Comprehending the Comparison Question Test (CQT)  7. Focusing attention on the main test questions, Relevant and Competing-Comparison, in the presence of potential competition with external issues  8. Additional theoretical aspects, frameworks, and emphases for the CQT  Part II. Considerations that guide the design, construction, and wording of CQT questions subject to the attention-focus rationale  9. More about the genuine polygraph examinee  10. More about the Relevant Questions (RQ) - Basic conditions affecting the construction of the Relevant Questions  11. More about the Competing-Comparison Questions (CCQs) from the Attention–Attracting Perspective in Practice  12. How the CQT Polygraph Test is Performed, or Should It Be Performed in the Field? 13. What Does the Research Tell Us About How Much Can We Rely on the Polygraph Examination to Deliver the Truth? 14. The Future Lies in Adaptive Polygraphy: Time to Embrace It  15. Appendices

Biography

Avital Ginton (Ph.D.), born in Israel in 1947, is a psychologist and retired commander of the Israel Police (1977–1999). He led key units in forensic behavioral science, while also holding part-time academic teaching and research positions. His expertise includes polygraph testing, profiling, and memory refreshment. After retiring, he founded a private institute that offers international services and training in these areas and continued teaching at the university. Over the years, he has developed a new theoretical framework for polygraph testing, the Relevant Issue Gravity (RIG).

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