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Polygraph (lie detector) they are increasingly used not only in criminology, but also in ordinary business. When applying for a job in a serious position, you are very confident that you will be interviewed with a polygraph several times a year. Today we will try to open the veil over the question of how to cheat a lie detector.
A lie detector, or as it is also called a polygraph, is used not only in criminology to determine the guilt of a suspect (if you are in deep trouble, then carefully study this manual and demand a polygraph test, perhaps this is your last chance to get out), but also in some companies during a job interview, because 90-95% accuracy of the result of a polygraph test allows the HR Department to find out in advance whether a future employee of the company is capable of committing theft, etc. We, in turn, believe that the use of a polygraph degrades human dignity and encourage everyone to successfully pass the test at any convenient opportunity and still deceive the lie detector.
Part 1.
Lie detector test
We will immediately answer the most important question: why, if it is so easy to deceive a lie detector, does it continue to find widespread use? The fact is that it is not so difficult to pass a lie detector test by answering questions with lies without increasing blood pressure, respiration, pulse rate and other biophysical changes (this is exactly what the program that measures the state of the body is designed for), but they will immediately figure you out.for this purpose, for the first twenty minutes you will be asked simple test questions to set up a lie detector specifically for you.
That is, if you come to a polygraph test stoned or with a hangover, drugged with tranquilizers, valium or Valerian, so as not to "worry", an experienced polygraph examiner will immediately notice this, and secondly, your similar reaction to all the lie detector questions may not prove your lie, but it will not help you in any way. Most likely, the results of the check will simply be canceled. In other words, the point is not to suppress all emotions, but to give the right reaction to the key questions of the test at the right moment.
How to cheat a lie detector
Thus, when answering polygraph questions, your task is to cause fake reactions to completely harmless questions, but which theoretically can concern you, for example, about family, and hide emotional experiences by answering lies to provocative ones.
The first is easily achieved by various physical stimuli, such as a button in a Shoe, muscle tension (preferably not the face, since this is quite easy to calculate), and various thoughts. Try thinking about your Tits, squaring some two-digit number, or concentrating on a pattern on the wall, etc. Combining fake reactions with the suppression of emotions in already known ways, such as alcohol and chemistry, and alternative ones - three days of insomnia, a large amount of pre-drunk liquid to want to go to the toilet (by the way, a fairly effective method of deceiving the polygraph), you can achieve quite a good result, giving out a lie detector test reaction only to completely harmless questions that
The perfect way to cheat a lie detector is through acting. Any artist, but a good one, who plays according to the Stanislavsky system, can easily pass the test, trite believing in the story of his lies. After all, if you yourself believe in your fictional story, for you it will no longer be a lie, but the truth, which means that the body will react to it as if it were the truth of pure water. If you haven't graduated from theater, haven't done any Amateur work, and have no idea how to do it, here are some effective tips that we've already discussed on the topic of NLP techniques.
In order to believe a lie yourself, you need to prepare for it in advance, think it through to the smallest detail, so that after thinking about it, you can spend hours talking about this topic, not inventing a story on the go,but remembering what was already in your head before. Small things play a special role. Colors, smells, your mood at that time, all these are suggested circumstances, keeping in mind that you can fully immerse yourself in the atmosphere of your lies and quite organically exist in it. Deceiving the polygraph with the help of acting, do not be afraid of excessive emotions, on the contrary, use them, transforming them into others. For example, try turning fear into anger, remorse into humility or misunderstanding, and so on. Replace the question with one that is more convenient for your perception. "Dig down" to individual words. For example, if you are asked if you have taken medications today, think about the fact that you have harmed yourself with these pills, but did not cure them in any way, thereby changing your attitude, you will get rid of the most important thing that can register a polygraph - the conflict of your consciousness with the subconscious.
You can keep your blood pressure under control by squeezing your sphincter muscles (imagine what you want in a big way and doing everything so that it doesn't happen right here) or biting the tip of your tongue between questions, but again with minimal facial expressions, without any external manifestations of this little trick of yours. It is advisable to do this between questions and at times when the polygraph examiner is distracted by something.
And finally, don't forget about breathing. The normal inhalation rate is once every 2-4 seconds. It is also not recommended to delay it because of the increased heart rate.
Part 2.
How to cheat a lie detector? Methods of counteraction
Today, the myth of the supereffectiveness of the polygraph is circulating in society. Annoying missteps are blamed on the lack of qualifications of individual specialists, but the reliability of the technology itself is almost never questioned. On the pages of various publications, you can often read "authoritative data" that the reliability of lie detector tests is 90-95 percent, or even higher. This myth is strongly supported by both polygraph examiners themselves and other interested structures.
First - for advertising purposes, in order to create commercial demand for such services. They are not cheap and bring a good income to specialized firms.
Secondly, to exert psychological pressure on test takers, depriving them of the will to resist and thus increasing the effectiveness of tests. This approach, figuratively speaking, helps to ensure victory even before the battle begins. Third, there are deeper, socio-psychological aspects of this phenomenon. Even in ancient times, it was known that the fear and simultaneous admiration of the crowd before something mysterious and powerful is the basis of power over it. The myth of the power of the polygraph, which is cultivated today, is no exception. "Bosses" use it and will continue to use it to keep in line those who are below them on the social ladder (the people, the plebs, subordinates, office plankton-whatever you want to call it).
Every polygraph examiner, before starting testing, necessarily tries to inspire the "victim" with the idea of the futility of countering the polygraph. During the briefing, you will be explained in a friendly and relaxed manner that, they say, the lie detector "sees everything" and it will not be possible to deceive it. And you can only relax and enjoy the process of turning You inside out, when other people's insensitive fingers unceremoniously climb into the hidden depths of Your soul. Let's not blame the experts for this professional trick — it's part of their job, spelled out in the instructions. Let's talk about whether you can actually cheat a lie detector?
Science and technology do not stand still, but the real efficiency of the polygraph today is still far from the declared indicators. This is evidenced by a large number of mistakes and high-profile scandals, when the results of a detector test literally broke the fate of innocent people. Even in the United States, where the tradition of active use of the polygraph goes back several decades, huge experience has been accumulated, and the level of training and qualification of personnel is not a match for our homegrown specialists, the reliability of assessments today is estimated by non biased experts at best at 70%, and this is the most optimistic data. Laboratory and field studies examining the accuracy of polygraph tests have shown that they allow for a significant number of errors. Experiments were also conducted that proved the possibility of training in successful counteraction to the polygraph. This means that although it is difficult to deceive a polygraph (lie detector), it is quite realistic.
The first step is to overcome the fear and "awe" of the polygraph, which inspired You with a manipulative purpose. Remember that a lie detector can't read Your thoughts and thus learn something about You. It only registers the state of the subject at the time of testing. Or rather, changes in physiological parameters when answering questions. Based on the collected data, the computer issues a probability estimate, which is then analyzed by a specialist. The polygraph, like any machine, can be deceived, clog its "brains" so that it cannot give an accurate answer.
A lie detector can easily be confused by pathological liars, because if a person sincerely believes in his lie, then for a polygraph it already looks like the truth. Another group is highly professional actors who perfectly master their craft (the Stanislavsky system, etc.) and are able to merge with the image of their hero, up to physiological manifestations ("laughter and tears to order, if you please"). It is also necessary to mention employees of the special services who have received special training. For other people, this will require training, sometimes quite long. Individual geniuses who have such a gift from birth do not count, since there are very few of them.
There are three main ways to counteract the polygraph. You can easily find a detailed description of them on the Internet.
Reducing the sensitivity
The first is to try to reduce the sensitivity of your own sensor analyzers. To do this, it will be enough to drink a certain amount of alcohol the day before. The next day, a person becomes weakly sensitive, his reactions are relatively speaking "inhibited" and he will not be able to respond objectively to the stimuli presented. The lie detector will not be able to draw unambiguous conclusions.
Specially selected medications are another option. However, You should be well aware of and understand the reaction of your body to "chemistry", because if the test taker has taken psychotropic substances for the first time, he will be in a new mental state for him and" out of habit " may begin to behave inappropriately, which will be instantly noticed. You can also use non-chemical methods. For example, lack of sleep for several days. Due to chronic lack of sleep, a person falls into a state close to trance, between sleep and wakefulness the physiological response to all questions will be equally insignificant. But it should be noted that an experienced polygraph examiner will notice this condition. It analyzes the magnitude of responses to special control questions that are not known to the subject. If the reaction to them does not differ from the "General background", the polygraph examiner can stop the test, or reschedule it for another time. However, sometimes even such a delay plays into the hands of the test taker.
Suppressing emotions
Another approach is to suppress all emotions so that no stimulus triggers a response. The basic principle here is that a person tries to answer all questions automatically, without paying serious attention to them. He should focus his attention on the drawing of the wall in front of him, or on some other neutral object or memory from his life experience. This method requires the ability to self-concentrate, and it requires long training sessions to master it, but its effectiveness is also quite high.
Training your response
The third approach reads: "What is important is not the lack of reaction as such (which is quite easily detected by special "control" questions and can cause suspicion), but the ability to give out the right reaction. " I.e., Your reaction should look natural. Feigned emotional responses to insignificant stimuli are effective. If you want to elicit a response to the right question, try simply multiplying a few multi-digit numbers in your mind, or think of something that triggers rage or sexual emotion.
For example, if you don't want to be found guilty of homosexuality, you need to multiply the numbers in your mind when you are asked "do you prefer women?" And if the inverse problem is set, i.e. You have to pretend to be a homosexual, which You are not (for example, to "cut off" from the army
), then you need to multiply when you hear the question "do you Prefer to have sex with people of your own sex", etc. as an option: when you are asked about women, at this moment You imagine or recall sexual scenes with men (or Vice versa).
Thus, the sexual response to images from Your imagination is "superimposed" on the question being asked, and it seems that it was the question that caused such a reaction. With a certain impressionability, willpower, and proven skill, this method works. The result can also be achieved if you start reading poetry. To myself, of course. Something long, like " Eugene Onegin." Worrying about the main character and answering questions as if in passing.
Physiological reactions characteristic of psychological stress are also caused by pain. Some people, in their attempts to deceive the polygraph, thought of putting a button under the thumb in the Shoe: the pain when pressing on it should cause a "fake reaction". There are many different ways to create fake reactions, one of them is to strain some muscle groups unnoticed by an expert. Usually, people press their toes to the floor, bring their eyes to their nose, or press their tongue to the hard roof of their mouth.
The difficulty here is to hide these movements from the interrogator, since such methods of deception are now known even to Amateur polygraph examiners. The test subject is often filmed on video cameras that capture a close-up of any of Your movements and changes in the expression of the "muzzle of the face". Therefore, this case should be handled very carefully. Keep in mind that any suspicious or ambiguous behavior will necessarily be interpreted AGAINST You.
As an alternative to a needle in your pants, you can recommend techniques from the NLP Arsenal - learn how to put a "psychological anchor" (for tension and relaxation), using it at the right moment. After all, it is the inner, mental techniques that are most difficult to expose. If you use them at the right times, it is quite possible to deceive the polygraph and lead the expert to erroneous conclusions.
An example for understanding the principle of working with tension/relaxation can be found in fiction:
- We are conducting an intensive search for this spy. Since you gentlemen were in close proximity to the scene of the accident, I intend to talk to you one at a time to find out what you might know. I can also detect… Which one of you is this missing spy?
This last arrow only caused a shocked silence. Now that he had put us all in a subdued state suitable for cross-examination, the gray man called the officers one at a time. I was doubly grateful for my foresight, which had taken the precaution of dropping me headfirst on the ground in full view of everyone.
I wasn't called third by accident. On what grounds? General resemblance in build to the spy Pas Ratunkov? A bandage? There must have been some basis for suspicion. I trudged forward, barely able to move my feet like the others before me. I saluted, and he pointed to a chair next to the desk.
- Why don't you hold this while we talk?" he said judiciously, handing me the silver egg of the lie detector sensor.
The real Vaska wouldn't have recognized him, so I didn't either. I just looked at him with mild interest - as if I didn't know he was transmitting vital information to the lie detector in front of him-and squeezed it in my hands. My thoughts were not so calm.
I'm caught! He found me out! He knows who I am and plays with me.
He looked deep into my bloodshot eyes, and I noticed that his mouth twisted slightly in disgust.
"Did you have another night, Lieutenant?" - what is it? " he asked me, looking at the sheet of paper and the lie detector reading.
"Yes, sir, you do… I had a few drinks with the guys. That's what I said out loud. What I thought to myself was this: they're going to shoot me dead, right through the heart! I imagined this vital organ spilling my living blood into the mud.
- I see you were recently demoted… Where are your fuses, Pas Ratunkov?
"I'm tired… I wish I was in bed, I thought.
"Fuses?" - I blinked my red eyes and, raising my hand to scratch my head, touched the bandage and thought that it was better not to. His eyes locked on mine, gray eyes almost the same color as his uniform, and for a moment I caught a glimpse of strength and anger behind his calm manner.
- And your head wound, where did you get it?" Our spy was hit on the side of the head.
"I fell, sir, and someone must have pushed me out of the van." Soldiers bandaged up, ask them…
- I already asked." They got drunk, fell, and disgraced the officer corps. Get out and clean up, you disgust me! Next!
I got unsteadily to my feet, not looking into the piercing gimlets of those cold eyes, and started to walk as if I'd forgotten about the device in my hands, then came back and dropped it on the table, but he was bent over his paperwork, ignoring me. I saw a faint scar under the sparse hair on top of his bald head and left.
It takes skill, practice, and training to fool a lie detector. I had it all. This can only be done under certain circumstances, and the current ones were perfect. Sudden interrogation, at night, without testing the subject's normal response. In this way, I had to Express a beautiful peak on its recorder. I was afraid of him, of something else, of anything. But when he asked capture questions designed to expose the spy, I relaxed, because I was waiting for them, and the device showed it. The question was meaningless to anyone but the spy. If he saw this soon enough, the interrogation was over, and he still had a lot of work to do.
(Harry garrison, revenge of the steel rat).
For those who know English, I recommend visiting the website of dedicated fighters against polygraph testing Antipolygraph.org. The credo of this site appeals to me very much. Loosely translated into Russian, it goes something like this: "Their right is to try to find out all the details about us, our right is to send them all to hell"… This is what democracy is all about." This site presents an interesting work "the Lie Behind the Lie Detector". In it, opponents of detectors offer their own methods of dealing with "unscientific ways of giving evidence, designed for idiots and working only in a disenfranchised country."
Training sessions for deception of the polygraph
These recommendations apply to the classic barking detector, which detects pressure fluctuations, respiratory rate, blinking, heart muscle contractions, electrical activity of the skin, brain activity, and involuntary movements of the hands and feet. For example, when the device is connected to the body, the first step is to pay attention to even breathing. Its frequency can vary from 15 to 30 breaths per minute (approximately 2-4 seconds).
It is generally accepted that rapid or slow breathing indicates that a person is lying. In addition, it is known that a "dangerous" question is followed by a "sigh of relief", so you should control your breathing until you completely "disconnect" from the wires that you are entangled in.
In order to deceive the blood pressure sensors, enthusiasts recommend doing the following exercise between the polygraph examiner's questions: squeeze the anal sphincter muscles and bite the tip of the tongue. It is necessary to compress the muscles so that the legs and buttocks do not move, since in modern models of detectors, sensors are connected to the seats that indicate the slightest fidgeting in the chair and swaying of the ankles.
Techniques like the ones listed above can be used not only for lie detector testing, but also during a routine interview, for example, with a psychologist or a human resources specialist when applying for a job. After all, an expert psychologist will also very carefully monitor Your reaction to his questions to find out if You are telling the truth.
And finally, here is an original method of dealing with the polygraph, sent by our reader.
After a little thought, I decided to write a few words about the polygraph… If I may… I don't think that I will have to pass such a check due to my problem… But still…
The fact is that the methods that You suggest, the polygraph can be deceived… But to do this, you need to be a very prepared person. The Committee trained people for this, uh ... well, for a very long time. After the failure of the Stasi agents, if I remember correctly, sclerosis in '60 or' 61. I mean methods of replacing questions or (even more so!!!) suppression of emotions. The method with the button is good, but ... with modern testing, sensors are placed under the legs of the chair. And any movement will be instantly detected and interpreted not in your favor. As well as muscle contraction.
Pressing the tongue to the roof of the mouth, biting the tongue is quickly determined by the appearance of any, even not very experienced expert, who during testing will not look at the tape at all — why, it is still recorded automatically, well, or on the monitor screen, but will look you in the face, revealing additional, NON-psychophysiological reactions, especially eye movement. Coming with a hangover is good. It is also good to come JUST by drinking a certain amount of alcohol. You can NOT drink alcohol. You can have 7-10 cups of coffee. You can also take other medications, such as tranquilizers. But again, with SERIOUS testing, you will definitely get a blood and/or urine test. Which all your tricks will calculate. Which again will be interpreted NOT in your favor. Not to mention the fact that testing can simply be postponed. In addition, all this affects the pulse rate. And it is CERTAINLY measured when testing on a polygraph. And an increased heart rate per minute can also be interpreted AGAINST you.
And absolutely all these methods are not applicable if you are being tested FROM the CAMERA. But the method that I will allow myself to offer you is largely free from all these shortcomings, tested (do not ask where!) and showed good results. With this method, you also need to drink. But only water. And in large quantities. Everyone knows approximately how much they need to drink to go to the toilet... well, they REALLY want to. How to drink for a long time… You can try to calculate it so that on preliminary, "sighting" questions you still don't really want to, And this is about the first 10-30 minutes.
But, even if you didn't calculate it, you can still force yourself not to think about the fact that you want to go to the toilet, relax as much as possible on the "sighting" questions… Well, in General, everyone has their own ways of dealing with themselves in such cases. But then… Focus as much as possible on your bladder, which is swollen, swollen, which is about to burst, think only about the unbearable need to go to the toilet, no longer have the strength to endure, no longer have the strength to think about anything but what you want to PEE-PEE!!!
A lie detector, or as it is also called a polygraph, is used not only in criminology to determine the guilt of a suspect (if you are in deep trouble, then carefully study this manual and demand a polygraph test, perhaps this is your last chance to get out), but also in some companies during a job interview, because 90-95% accuracy of the result of a polygraph test allows the HR Department to find out in advance whether a future employee of the company is capable of committing theft, etc. We, in turn, believe that the use of a polygraph degrades human dignity and encourage everyone to successfully pass the test at any convenient opportunity and still deceive the lie detector.
Part 1.
Lie detector test
We will immediately answer the most important question: why, if it is so easy to deceive a lie detector, does it continue to find widespread use? The fact is that it is not so difficult to pass a lie detector test by answering questions with lies without increasing blood pressure, respiration, pulse rate and other biophysical changes (this is exactly what the program that measures the state of the body is designed for), but they will immediately figure you out.for this purpose, for the first twenty minutes you will be asked simple test questions to set up a lie detector specifically for you.
That is, if you come to a polygraph test stoned or with a hangover, drugged with tranquilizers, valium or Valerian, so as not to "worry", an experienced polygraph examiner will immediately notice this, and secondly, your similar reaction to all the lie detector questions may not prove your lie, but it will not help you in any way. Most likely, the results of the check will simply be canceled. In other words, the point is not to suppress all emotions, but to give the right reaction to the key questions of the test at the right moment.
How to cheat a lie detector
Thus, when answering polygraph questions, your task is to cause fake reactions to completely harmless questions, but which theoretically can concern you, for example, about family, and hide emotional experiences by answering lies to provocative ones.
The first is easily achieved by various physical stimuli, such as a button in a Shoe, muscle tension (preferably not the face, since this is quite easy to calculate), and various thoughts. Try thinking about your Tits, squaring some two-digit number, or concentrating on a pattern on the wall, etc. Combining fake reactions with the suppression of emotions in already known ways, such as alcohol and chemistry, and alternative ones - three days of insomnia, a large amount of pre-drunk liquid to want to go to the toilet (by the way, a fairly effective method of deceiving the polygraph), you can achieve quite a good result, giving out a lie detector test reaction only to completely harmless questions that
The perfect way to cheat a lie detector is through acting. Any artist, but a good one, who plays according to the Stanislavsky system, can easily pass the test, trite believing in the story of his lies. After all, if you yourself believe in your fictional story, for you it will no longer be a lie, but the truth, which means that the body will react to it as if it were the truth of pure water. If you haven't graduated from theater, haven't done any Amateur work, and have no idea how to do it, here are some effective tips that we've already discussed on the topic of NLP techniques.
In order to believe a lie yourself, you need to prepare for it in advance, think it through to the smallest detail, so that after thinking about it, you can spend hours talking about this topic, not inventing a story on the go,but remembering what was already in your head before. Small things play a special role. Colors, smells, your mood at that time, all these are suggested circumstances, keeping in mind that you can fully immerse yourself in the atmosphere of your lies and quite organically exist in it. Deceiving the polygraph with the help of acting, do not be afraid of excessive emotions, on the contrary, use them, transforming them into others. For example, try turning fear into anger, remorse into humility or misunderstanding, and so on. Replace the question with one that is more convenient for your perception. "Dig down" to individual words. For example, if you are asked if you have taken medications today, think about the fact that you have harmed yourself with these pills, but did not cure them in any way, thereby changing your attitude, you will get rid of the most important thing that can register a polygraph - the conflict of your consciousness with the subconscious.
You can keep your blood pressure under control by squeezing your sphincter muscles (imagine what you want in a big way and doing everything so that it doesn't happen right here) or biting the tip of your tongue between questions, but again with minimal facial expressions, without any external manifestations of this little trick of yours. It is advisable to do this between questions and at times when the polygraph examiner is distracted by something.
And finally, don't forget about breathing. The normal inhalation rate is once every 2-4 seconds. It is also not recommended to delay it because of the increased heart rate.
Part 2.
How to cheat a lie detector? Methods of counteraction
Today, the myth of the supereffectiveness of the polygraph is circulating in society. Annoying missteps are blamed on the lack of qualifications of individual specialists, but the reliability of the technology itself is almost never questioned. On the pages of various publications, you can often read "authoritative data" that the reliability of lie detector tests is 90-95 percent, or even higher. This myth is strongly supported by both polygraph examiners themselves and other interested structures.
First - for advertising purposes, in order to create commercial demand for such services. They are not cheap and bring a good income to specialized firms.
Secondly, to exert psychological pressure on test takers, depriving them of the will to resist and thus increasing the effectiveness of tests. This approach, figuratively speaking, helps to ensure victory even before the battle begins. Third, there are deeper, socio-psychological aspects of this phenomenon. Even in ancient times, it was known that the fear and simultaneous admiration of the crowd before something mysterious and powerful is the basis of power over it. The myth of the power of the polygraph, which is cultivated today, is no exception. "Bosses" use it and will continue to use it to keep in line those who are below them on the social ladder (the people, the plebs, subordinates, office plankton-whatever you want to call it).
Every polygraph examiner, before starting testing, necessarily tries to inspire the "victim" with the idea of the futility of countering the polygraph. During the briefing, you will be explained in a friendly and relaxed manner that, they say, the lie detector "sees everything" and it will not be possible to deceive it. And you can only relax and enjoy the process of turning You inside out, when other people's insensitive fingers unceremoniously climb into the hidden depths of Your soul. Let's not blame the experts for this professional trick — it's part of their job, spelled out in the instructions. Let's talk about whether you can actually cheat a lie detector?
Science and technology do not stand still, but the real efficiency of the polygraph today is still far from the declared indicators. This is evidenced by a large number of mistakes and high-profile scandals, when the results of a detector test literally broke the fate of innocent people. Even in the United States, where the tradition of active use of the polygraph goes back several decades, huge experience has been accumulated, and the level of training and qualification of personnel is not a match for our homegrown specialists, the reliability of assessments today is estimated by non biased experts at best at 70%, and this is the most optimistic data. Laboratory and field studies examining the accuracy of polygraph tests have shown that they allow for a significant number of errors. Experiments were also conducted that proved the possibility of training in successful counteraction to the polygraph. This means that although it is difficult to deceive a polygraph (lie detector), it is quite realistic.
The first step is to overcome the fear and "awe" of the polygraph, which inspired You with a manipulative purpose. Remember that a lie detector can't read Your thoughts and thus learn something about You. It only registers the state of the subject at the time of testing. Or rather, changes in physiological parameters when answering questions. Based on the collected data, the computer issues a probability estimate, which is then analyzed by a specialist. The polygraph, like any machine, can be deceived, clog its "brains" so that it cannot give an accurate answer.
A lie detector can easily be confused by pathological liars, because if a person sincerely believes in his lie, then for a polygraph it already looks like the truth. Another group is highly professional actors who perfectly master their craft (the Stanislavsky system, etc.) and are able to merge with the image of their hero, up to physiological manifestations ("laughter and tears to order, if you please"). It is also necessary to mention employees of the special services who have received special training. For other people, this will require training, sometimes quite long. Individual geniuses who have such a gift from birth do not count, since there are very few of them.
There are three main ways to counteract the polygraph. You can easily find a detailed description of them on the Internet.
Reducing the sensitivity
The first is to try to reduce the sensitivity of your own sensor analyzers. To do this, it will be enough to drink a certain amount of alcohol the day before. The next day, a person becomes weakly sensitive, his reactions are relatively speaking "inhibited" and he will not be able to respond objectively to the stimuli presented. The lie detector will not be able to draw unambiguous conclusions.
Specially selected medications are another option. However, You should be well aware of and understand the reaction of your body to "chemistry", because if the test taker has taken psychotropic substances for the first time, he will be in a new mental state for him and" out of habit " may begin to behave inappropriately, which will be instantly noticed. You can also use non-chemical methods. For example, lack of sleep for several days. Due to chronic lack of sleep, a person falls into a state close to trance, between sleep and wakefulness the physiological response to all questions will be equally insignificant. But it should be noted that an experienced polygraph examiner will notice this condition. It analyzes the magnitude of responses to special control questions that are not known to the subject. If the reaction to them does not differ from the "General background", the polygraph examiner can stop the test, or reschedule it for another time. However, sometimes even such a delay plays into the hands of the test taker.
Suppressing emotions
Another approach is to suppress all emotions so that no stimulus triggers a response. The basic principle here is that a person tries to answer all questions automatically, without paying serious attention to them. He should focus his attention on the drawing of the wall in front of him, or on some other neutral object or memory from his life experience. This method requires the ability to self-concentrate, and it requires long training sessions to master it, but its effectiveness is also quite high.
Training your response
The third approach reads: "What is important is not the lack of reaction as such (which is quite easily detected by special "control" questions and can cause suspicion), but the ability to give out the right reaction. " I.e., Your reaction should look natural. Feigned emotional responses to insignificant stimuli are effective. If you want to elicit a response to the right question, try simply multiplying a few multi-digit numbers in your mind, or think of something that triggers rage or sexual emotion.
For example, if you don't want to be found guilty of homosexuality, you need to multiply the numbers in your mind when you are asked "do you prefer women?" And if the inverse problem is set, i.e. You have to pretend to be a homosexual, which You are not (for example, to "cut off" from the army
), then you need to multiply when you hear the question "do you Prefer to have sex with people of your own sex", etc. as an option: when you are asked about women, at this moment You imagine or recall sexual scenes with men (or Vice versa).Thus, the sexual response to images from Your imagination is "superimposed" on the question being asked, and it seems that it was the question that caused such a reaction. With a certain impressionability, willpower, and proven skill, this method works. The result can also be achieved if you start reading poetry. To myself, of course. Something long, like " Eugene Onegin." Worrying about the main character and answering questions as if in passing.
Physiological reactions characteristic of psychological stress are also caused by pain. Some people, in their attempts to deceive the polygraph, thought of putting a button under the thumb in the Shoe: the pain when pressing on it should cause a "fake reaction". There are many different ways to create fake reactions, one of them is to strain some muscle groups unnoticed by an expert. Usually, people press their toes to the floor, bring their eyes to their nose, or press their tongue to the hard roof of their mouth.
The difficulty here is to hide these movements from the interrogator, since such methods of deception are now known even to Amateur polygraph examiners. The test subject is often filmed on video cameras that capture a close-up of any of Your movements and changes in the expression of the "muzzle of the face". Therefore, this case should be handled very carefully. Keep in mind that any suspicious or ambiguous behavior will necessarily be interpreted AGAINST You.
As an alternative to a needle in your pants, you can recommend techniques from the NLP Arsenal - learn how to put a "psychological anchor" (for tension and relaxation), using it at the right moment. After all, it is the inner, mental techniques that are most difficult to expose. If you use them at the right times, it is quite possible to deceive the polygraph and lead the expert to erroneous conclusions.
An example for understanding the principle of working with tension/relaxation can be found in fiction:
- We are conducting an intensive search for this spy. Since you gentlemen were in close proximity to the scene of the accident, I intend to talk to you one at a time to find out what you might know. I can also detect… Which one of you is this missing spy?
This last arrow only caused a shocked silence. Now that he had put us all in a subdued state suitable for cross-examination, the gray man called the officers one at a time. I was doubly grateful for my foresight, which had taken the precaution of dropping me headfirst on the ground in full view of everyone.
I wasn't called third by accident. On what grounds? General resemblance in build to the spy Pas Ratunkov? A bandage? There must have been some basis for suspicion. I trudged forward, barely able to move my feet like the others before me. I saluted, and he pointed to a chair next to the desk.
- Why don't you hold this while we talk?" he said judiciously, handing me the silver egg of the lie detector sensor.
The real Vaska wouldn't have recognized him, so I didn't either. I just looked at him with mild interest - as if I didn't know he was transmitting vital information to the lie detector in front of him-and squeezed it in my hands. My thoughts were not so calm.
I'm caught! He found me out! He knows who I am and plays with me.
He looked deep into my bloodshot eyes, and I noticed that his mouth twisted slightly in disgust.
"Did you have another night, Lieutenant?" - what is it? " he asked me, looking at the sheet of paper and the lie detector reading.
"Yes, sir, you do… I had a few drinks with the guys. That's what I said out loud. What I thought to myself was this: they're going to shoot me dead, right through the heart! I imagined this vital organ spilling my living blood into the mud.
- I see you were recently demoted… Where are your fuses, Pas Ratunkov?
"I'm tired… I wish I was in bed, I thought.
"Fuses?" - I blinked my red eyes and, raising my hand to scratch my head, touched the bandage and thought that it was better not to. His eyes locked on mine, gray eyes almost the same color as his uniform, and for a moment I caught a glimpse of strength and anger behind his calm manner.
- And your head wound, where did you get it?" Our spy was hit on the side of the head.
"I fell, sir, and someone must have pushed me out of the van." Soldiers bandaged up, ask them…
- I already asked." They got drunk, fell, and disgraced the officer corps. Get out and clean up, you disgust me! Next!
I got unsteadily to my feet, not looking into the piercing gimlets of those cold eyes, and started to walk as if I'd forgotten about the device in my hands, then came back and dropped it on the table, but he was bent over his paperwork, ignoring me. I saw a faint scar under the sparse hair on top of his bald head and left.
It takes skill, practice, and training to fool a lie detector. I had it all. This can only be done under certain circumstances, and the current ones were perfect. Sudden interrogation, at night, without testing the subject's normal response. In this way, I had to Express a beautiful peak on its recorder. I was afraid of him, of something else, of anything. But when he asked capture questions designed to expose the spy, I relaxed, because I was waiting for them, and the device showed it. The question was meaningless to anyone but the spy. If he saw this soon enough, the interrogation was over, and he still had a lot of work to do.
(Harry garrison, revenge of the steel rat).
For those who know English, I recommend visiting the website of dedicated fighters against polygraph testing Antipolygraph.org. The credo of this site appeals to me very much. Loosely translated into Russian, it goes something like this: "Their right is to try to find out all the details about us, our right is to send them all to hell"… This is what democracy is all about." This site presents an interesting work "the Lie Behind the Lie Detector". In it, opponents of detectors offer their own methods of dealing with "unscientific ways of giving evidence, designed for idiots and working only in a disenfranchised country."
Training sessions for deception of the polygraph
These recommendations apply to the classic barking detector, which detects pressure fluctuations, respiratory rate, blinking, heart muscle contractions, electrical activity of the skin, brain activity, and involuntary movements of the hands and feet. For example, when the device is connected to the body, the first step is to pay attention to even breathing. Its frequency can vary from 15 to 30 breaths per minute (approximately 2-4 seconds).
It is generally accepted that rapid or slow breathing indicates that a person is lying. In addition, it is known that a "dangerous" question is followed by a "sigh of relief", so you should control your breathing until you completely "disconnect" from the wires that you are entangled in.
In order to deceive the blood pressure sensors, enthusiasts recommend doing the following exercise between the polygraph examiner's questions: squeeze the anal sphincter muscles and bite the tip of the tongue. It is necessary to compress the muscles so that the legs and buttocks do not move, since in modern models of detectors, sensors are connected to the seats that indicate the slightest fidgeting in the chair and swaying of the ankles.
Techniques like the ones listed above can be used not only for lie detector testing, but also during a routine interview, for example, with a psychologist or a human resources specialist when applying for a job. After all, an expert psychologist will also very carefully monitor Your reaction to his questions to find out if You are telling the truth.
And finally, here is an original method of dealing with the polygraph, sent by our reader.
After a little thought, I decided to write a few words about the polygraph… If I may… I don't think that I will have to pass such a check due to my problem… But still…
The fact is that the methods that You suggest, the polygraph can be deceived… But to do this, you need to be a very prepared person. The Committee trained people for this, uh ... well, for a very long time. After the failure of the Stasi agents, if I remember correctly, sclerosis in '60 or' 61. I mean methods of replacing questions or (even more so!!!) suppression of emotions. The method with the button is good, but ... with modern testing, sensors are placed under the legs of the chair. And any movement will be instantly detected and interpreted not in your favor. As well as muscle contraction.
Pressing the tongue to the roof of the mouth, biting the tongue is quickly determined by the appearance of any, even not very experienced expert, who during testing will not look at the tape at all — why, it is still recorded automatically, well, or on the monitor screen, but will look you in the face, revealing additional, NON-psychophysiological reactions, especially eye movement. Coming with a hangover is good. It is also good to come JUST by drinking a certain amount of alcohol. You can NOT drink alcohol. You can have 7-10 cups of coffee. You can also take other medications, such as tranquilizers. But again, with SERIOUS testing, you will definitely get a blood and/or urine test. Which all your tricks will calculate. Which again will be interpreted NOT in your favor. Not to mention the fact that testing can simply be postponed. In addition, all this affects the pulse rate. And it is CERTAINLY measured when testing on a polygraph. And an increased heart rate per minute can also be interpreted AGAINST you.
And absolutely all these methods are not applicable if you are being tested FROM the CAMERA. But the method that I will allow myself to offer you is largely free from all these shortcomings, tested (do not ask where!) and showed good results. With this method, you also need to drink. But only water. And in large quantities. Everyone knows approximately how much they need to drink to go to the toilet... well, they REALLY want to. How to drink for a long time… You can try to calculate it so that on preliminary, "sighting" questions you still don't really want to, And this is about the first 10-30 minutes.
But, even if you didn't calculate it, you can still force yourself not to think about the fact that you want to go to the toilet, relax as much as possible on the "sighting" questions… Well, in General, everyone has their own ways of dealing with themselves in such cases. But then… Focus as much as possible on your bladder, which is swollen, swollen, which is about to burst, think only about the unbearable need to go to the toilet, no longer have the strength to endure, no longer have the strength to think about anything but what you want to PEE-PEE!!!
