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psychogalvanometer
noun as in lie detector
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Thereupon the judge called in a psychologist and tested Goldman with a psychogalvanometer which, by recording electrical impulses in a man's skin, is supposed to show whether he answers questions truthfully.
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Ph.D., head of Fordham University's department of psychology, the psychogalvanometer works not on the heart and lungs but on the minute electrical currents coursing through the body.
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Tested last week in Manhattan was another such instrument�the psychogalvanometer.
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