Lie detectors

These gadgets presumably measure skin conductivity as affected by perspiration, which is one aspect. Polygraphs/lie detectors use pulse rate changes, blood pressure and respiration (breathing rate etc) as well. I guess shocking liar devices could explore some of the issues. I gather this has previously been discussed in WrongPlanet. This device guages body changes that might indicate different levels of anxiety.

Hence on the autistic spectrum our anxiety patterns are different and might give different results from those experienced for neuro-typical subjects.

The police seem to place a lot of confidence in people's eye behaviour. Having "shifty eyes" is suppoosed to imply criminal intention. So a person on the autistic spectrum who has difficulty with eye contact would come under suspicion. Even with greater awareness that there are people with autism out there, I don't think the police have made that much progress.

The lie detector relies on assumptions that certain responses indicate deceit. So my question was, and is still, has anyone investigated whether people on the spectrum might show different responses from NTs, and therefore mistakenly incriminate themselves.

After all I'm sure a few on the spectrum or parents of those on the spectrum have had uncomfortable encounters with the police for behaving oddly. So it is important, surely, to take this seriously.

These gadgets presumably measure skin conductivity as affected by perspiration, which is one aspect. Polygraphs/lie detectors use pulse rate changes, blood pressure and respiration (breathing rate etc) as well. I guess shocking liar devices could explore some of the issues. I gather this has previously been discussed in WrongPlanet. This device guages body changes that might indicate different levels of anxiety.

Hence on the autistic spectrum our anxiety patterns are different and might give different results from those experienced for neuro-typical subjects.

The police seem to place a lot of confidence in people's eye behaviour. Having "shifty eyes" is suppoosed to imply criminal intention. So a person on the autistic spectrum who has difficulty with eye contact would come under suspicion. Even with greater awareness that there are people with autism out there, I don't think the police have made that much progress.

The lie detector relies on assumptions that certain responses indicate deceit. So my question was, and is still, has anyone investigated whether people on the spectrum might show different responses from NTs, and therefore mistakenly incriminate themselves.

After all I'm sure a few on the spectrum or parents of those on the spectrum have had uncomfortable encounters with the police for behaving oddly. So it is important, surely, to take this seriously.