著者
廣田 昭久 横田 賀英子 和田 純一郎 渡辺 昭一 高澤 則美
出版者
日本法科学技術学会
雑誌
日本鑑識科学技術学会誌 (ISSN:13428713)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.5, no.1, pp.33-53, 2000 (Released:2009-11-27)
参考文献数
81
被引用文献数
9 7

In the present study we investigated heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) in the guilty knowledge test (GKT). Participants were instructed to “steal” envelopes and hide them. Participants were then presented with questions focusing on certain aspects of the particular envelopes they had stolen. They were requested to respond with “no” to every question, thus denying their knowledge about the critical items. Heart rate, SCR, and HRV components of high-frequency (HF) and low-frequency (LF) were measured during the GKT examinations. Results showed that heart rate decreased in the critical items. They also showed that decrement of heart rate was most distinctive about 10-15 seconds after the onset of the questioning of the critical items. The results indicated that there is a characteristic response pattern between heart rate and HRV concerning the critical items. That is, heart rate decrement is accompanied by increment of HF component and decrement of LF component. Also, in order to examine which method would serve as the most effective measure for psychophysiological detection of deception, we compared among three different analytical methods: fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis, peak-to-valley method, and complex demodulation (CDM) method, in assessing HRV, respectively. Results showed that the CDM method traced both HF and LF amplitudes were most effectively, and therefore would be the best indices for detection. Some hypotheses were discussed concerning psychophysiological responses in detection of deception, one of which was the implication that subjects might have adopted passive coping, in other words, hemodynamic reaction pattern-II, when presented with the critical items, because of the particular cardiovascular response pattern shown in the psychophysiological detection of deception.