Emotional Development and Youths' Predisposition to Deception

An Experimental Study Using the Polygraph Method

Oleksiy Chebykin, Olena Kosyanova

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040109977
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This comprehensive book examines young people's propensity to deceive through the lens of emotional development and the research methods of polygraph and emotional maturity methodology. It presents evidence-based and practical results of this research, identifying a predisposition to deceit in people with different types of emotional maturity.

The book begins with outlining the history and development of the polygraph and highlights the theoretical and methodological foundations of its application. Sharing the main aims and results of this study, the book then highlights the principal components and different types of emotional maturity, how the emotional sphere plays a determining role in deceit and specifically how changes in self-expression, self-regulation, and empathy can govern a person's character to deceive. On the basis of this extensive experimental data, the authors clearly demonstrate how various features of the youth's tendency to deceive depended on age, gender characteristics and educational and professional training.

This book is of great scientific and practical importance and will be useful to psychologists, students, scientific and pedagogical workers, as well as specialists involved in the selection and audit of personnel, and other readers interested in using the polygraph method to detect and predict fraud.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Introduction
• 1. The Problem of Cognition of the Deception Propensity: Historical and Categorical Context of the Polygraph Method
• 2. Psychophysiological and Psychological Foundations of Theories and Practices of Deception Diagnosis: Polygraph Emotional Aspect
• 3. Emotional Maturity as a Probable Feature of the Possibility of Deception Propensity
• 4. Assessment of the Prediction of Young People’s Propensity to Deceive based on Polygraph Data and Emotional Maturity
• 5. Scientific and Methodological Recommendations Based on the Results of the Study
• 6. General Conclusions
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Index