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something to xate on. And the subject is heavily invested in believing that the auditor and the meter are eective, so it’s a
mutually reinforcing system.” The E-Meter measures skin resistance, like a lie detector. “Strong emotional reactions do
cause changes in muscle tension or micro-tremors of the ngers will also cause changes in the current owing to the
meter, so it’s not purely measuring the physiological changes associated with skin resistance like a real lie detector would.
(And real lie detectors also look at other variables, such as pulse and respiration rates.)” (David Touretsky, personal
correspondence.)