Emotional Development and Youths’ Predisposition to Deception: An Experimental Study Using the Polygraph Method

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.

Oleksiy Chebykin, is a Doctor of Psychological Sciences, academician of the National Academy of Psychological Sciences of Ukraine and professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Practical Psychology in Ushinsky University (Odessa). Dr Chebykin is the author of 700 publications on the problems of development of the emotional sphere, emotional stability, risk, emotional intelligence, deception, emotional regulation, the impact of different cyber addictions on the emotional sphere, emotional health and other issues.

Olena Kosyanova, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Practical Psychology in Ushinsky University (Odessa), head of the laboratory of general, special and medical psychodiagnostics. Dr Kosyanova has authored 70 publications on various problems of diagnostics, hidden information and deception depending on different personal characteristics of a person.