S.L. Amato’s scientific contributions

... A larger proportion of deceptive subjects reported attempting Spontaneous CMs but 18% of truthful subjects also reported attempting Spontaneous CMs. From study 11 (Honts, Amato and Gordon, 2001) we see about 68% overall and about 50% of truthful subjects attempted Spontaneous CMs. ...

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VOLUME 44 2015 NUMBER 2 Polygraph

... Indeed, this seems to be the reason why the authors advocate scoring similar responding to both the control and the relevant question types as signalling deception. Here, the authors simply ignore several published empirical research indicating that a substantial proportion of guilty examinees can augment their physiological responses to the control questions beyond those to the relevant question, thereby obtaining a truthful test outcome (for a review see [4]). ...

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The Quadri-Track Zone Comparison Technique: It's just not science. A critique to Mangan, Armitage, and Adams (2008)

... More importantly, these scenarios too frequently present exigent circumstances, which preclude the use of a CIT protocol, generally due to an insufficient number, or the complete absence, of testable "items" (Krapohl, 2011;also see Podlesney, 2003). Collaboration between CQT and CIT advocates, however, has generally been nonexistent and we believe may be due more to the strong philosophical differences (cf., Ben-Shakhar, 2002;Iacono and Lykken, 2002;Raskin et al., 1999) embraced by a few individuals rather than any discrepant findings that are occasionally found in empirical studies. ...

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Credibility Assessment: Preliminary Process Theory, the Polygraph Process, and Construct Validity