Effects of guilt, disbelief, and assessed lie-truth telling abilities on physiological responses in the guilty action test

This experiment used a mock crime procedure in which 100 participants were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions in a 2× 2 factorial design. Two guilt conditions (guilty and informed innocents) were crossed with two human interrogation feedback conditions (believed and not believed). The Guilty Action polygraph test was administered several days after the mock crime and the human interrogation. Along with the common dependent polygraph measures (electro dermal, respiration, and cardiovascular measures) …