NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES/NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
DIVISION OF BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND EDUCATION
Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph
Meeting of January 25-27, 2001
National Academy of Sciences
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Room 250
Washington DC
Agenda
January 25, 2001
6:30 pm Working Dinner, La Chaumiere, 2813 M Street, N.W.
January 26, 2001
8:00 am Continental breakfast in meeting room
8:30 am Open session
Introduction to the NRC Torrey
Welcome to the committee Fienberg
Introductions of committee members (TAB 1)
Charge to the committee (TAB 2)
--Gen. John A. Gordon, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S.
Department of Energy
--Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
--Peter Lyons, office of Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM)
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Uses of the polygraph in the federal government:
employment and security contexts (TAB 3)
… purposes for use of polygraph in the federal government
… how polygraphs are administered for these purposes
… how polygraph data are used
--Brief presentations:
Andy Ryan, Chief of Research, Department of Defense Polygraph Institute
Dave Renzelman, Director, Polygraph Program, U.S. Department of Energy
Joseph Mahaley, Director of Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy
Alan P. Zelicoff, Center for National Security and Arms Control, Sandia
National Laboratory
--Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm The scientific controversy over the validity of polygraph testing (TABS 4,5)
Fienberg, Ekman
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Closed session
Discussion of conflicts of interest and sources of bias Grohman
5:00 pm Adjourn
January 27, 2001
8:00 am Continental breakfast in meeting room
8:30 am Open session
Discussion of topics for consideration by the panel: Psychophysiological issues
--Psychophysiology of emotion and deception (TAB 6)
Davidson, Grambsch
--Social factors affecting psychophysiological response (TAB 7)
Blascovich
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Discussion of topics for consideration by the panel: Data analysis and inference
--Extracting signal from noise in polygraph data (TAB 8) Laskey, Imrey
--Inferring psychological significance from physiological signals (TAB 9)
Cacioppo
--Validity/accuracy and predictive value (TAB 10) Swets
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Discussion of topics for consideration by the panel: Other topics
--Alternative indicators of deception (TAB 11) Ekman, Raichle, Grambsch
--Policy and legal issues (TAB 12) Faigman
3:00 pm Planning the study
Schedule of work and meetings (TAB 13)
Needs for commissioned work for the study
Early consideration of dissemination needs
4:30 pm Adjourn