Abstract
Lie detection and relaxation therapies generally assume patterns of respiration, circulation, and perspiration. Lack of evidence for any such pattern is attributed here to the atomistic tradition with only two laboratory situations, e.g., experimental and control. Six mean behaviors during-minus-before visual instructions to tell a lie, feel a specified emotion, etc., were factored into three bipolar stimulus factor patterns. A replication (N = 31) with 14 responses to these 20 plus 29 other experimental and historical stimuli showed bipolarity was an artifact. By analyzing (14 x 49) mean behavior differences instead of (6 x 20) mean z scores, the first bipolar factor becomes two orthogonal factors, Act and Look. Instructions to look and a history of having been told one has high blood pressure both elicit the same pattern. Instructions to do arithmetic elicit Look plus (muscle) Act (ion). Instructions to lie and to listen elicit an orthogonal pattern, particularly in hesitant liars. Not only such sets of equivalent inputs but also sets of covarying outputs are identified.
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Coppock, H.W., Mitchell, J.M. & Adams, J.D. Instructional and Historical Controls of Autonomic Patterns. Psychol Rec 30, 73–88 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03394656
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