Emeritus Academy Lecture Series: Gary Berntson

Emeritus Academy Lecture Series

Gary Berntson, Professor Emeritus
History and current status of approaches to the detection of veracity and deception in the context of national security
Gary Berntson
Department of Psychology

"History and current status of approaches to the detection of veracity and deception in the context of national security"

December 2, 2020
4-5 p.m.
CarmenZoom: link to be distributed via email to registered participants

Programming note: this lecture will begin with an introduction of the newest Emeritus Academy members.

The search for methods to distinguish truth from deception has a centuries-long history that will be traced from historical efforts to their present day iterations.  Topics will include government efforts to identify potential individual threats through specific questioning to recently developed brain-measures of “guilty knowledge.”  Do they work?  What does that even mean?  Some broad scientific, pragmatic and ethical guidelines will be considered.

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