In advance of her appearance on Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, who accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her ...

When teachers were accused of fondling or sexual harassing students, Springfield school officials at times used an unusual, and troubling, tool to investigate — they had them take a polygraph test.

The polygraph is not a lie detector but rather an instrument that measures a person’s physiological changes to questions posed by the examiner. An elevated physiological response to a particular ...