Detection of deception: a transactional analysis perspective.

I have attempted to integrate two divergent fields in applied psychology, the psychophysiological detection of deception (polygraph testing) and the transactional analysis theory. Transactional analysis theory provides a useful framework for understanding the examiner-examinee interaction in the pretest interview of the widely used but highly controversial control-question polygraph test. This research is relevant to the ongoing debate about the plausibility of the rationale underlying this technique.