In recent years, progress in the field of lie detection has been linked to technological advances from classic polygraphs to neuroscientific brain imaging. In our empirical investigation, however, we found different notions of progress that do not comply with the popular understanding of progress as technological innovation. We follow the users of lie detection procedures in Germany in order to discern how they embrace seemingly old technologies and frame them in terms of novelty and improvement. We identify two notions of progress: one view of the polygraph in the juridical field as an instrument for procedural justice, and another view in which the device functions as a symbol of openness to improvements in the judicial system. These insights complement contemporary scholarship on lie detection by shining a critical light on the rhetoric of progress in relation to the promises of brain-based lie detection procedures. When analyzing the way polygraph tests are seen as progress, it becomes clear that the promises and hopes that are linked to this technology are of more relevance for its appraisal than its placement in time.

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进展不合时宜？法律领域的谎言检测用户概念

近年来，测谎检测领域的进步与从经典测谎仪到神经科学脑成像的技术进步有关。但是，在我们的实证研究中，我们发现了不同的进步概念，这些观念与流行的技术创新理解不一致。我们跟踪德国测谎程序的用户，以便辨别他们如何接受看似古老的技术，并以新颖性和改进性为框架。我们确定了两种进展观念：一种在司法领域中的测谎仪作为程序正义的工具，另一种观点认为该手段是对司法体系改进开放的象征。这些见解通过对与基于脑的测谎程序的承诺有关的进展的言论发出批判性的光芒，补充了对测谎的当代学术研究。在分析测谎仪测试被视为进展的方式时，很明显，与这项技术相关的希望和希望与其评估的重要性有关，而不是其及时放置。