392:, advising against pseudoscientific polygraph screening for lie-detection in the 1990s because of evidence-based concerns about its inaccuracy and unreliability. Furedy was outspoken in exposing use of the polygraph for lie detection as fraudulent and abusive. Furedy concurred with other eminent psychophysiologists that polygraph "testing" (despite being shamelessly and irresponsibly promoted in the mass media) has no actual scientific basis, being almost entirely dependent on an individual's ignorance and propensity to experience fear.
207:, also cherished and was keen to articulate the principle of academic freedom. His personal interests included bridge, tennis, body surfing and cross country skiing. His obituary in the National Post read in part... "He cycled to work summer and winter, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, parking his cycle in his office, crowding the colleagues who joined him for a lunchtime bridge game'. In 2005, Furedy retired and returned to
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aimed to "call public attention to the dangers of polygraphy and to protect the innocent from polygraph abuse. Because of...reliance on this pseudoscientific procedure, thousands of truthful persons have been falsely accused of deception and suffered serious adverse consequences. On the other hand,
442:
Boyle, G.J., Furedy, J.J., Neumann, D.L. et al. (2010). Balance between merit and equity in academic hiring decisions: Judgemental content analysis applied to the phraseology of
Australian tenure-stream advertisements in comparison with Canadian advertisements.
328:") in their hiring policies, as reflected in the phraseology of their tenure-stream advertisements, including cultural aspects. Over the years, Furedy was actively engaged in several research organizations, including the Anti-polygraph organization, the
276:, Furedy ran a state-of-the-art psychophysiology laboratory, advising and collaborating with undergraduates, graduates and post-doctoral students until 1995. From then on, he undertook an extensive "merit vs. equity" research program supported by the
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applied to psychology as a scientific discipline, and the over-reliance on the information-processing, computer metaphor in cognitive psychology, as well as human sex differences in cognitive functions and processes. Influenced by the
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Kanit, I., Tabkyran, D., Furedy, J.J. et al. (1998). Nicotine interacts with sex in affecting rat choice between "look-out" and "navigational" cognitive styles in the Morris water maze place learning task.
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degree in philosophy and psychology (with first class honours in both disciplines and the rare distinction of winning the
University Medal in psychology). In 1967, he joined the academic faculty at the
284:, "Colleagues and students found him an incisive and critical thinker, determined and principled, able to disagree with opinions without personal animosity, having a sharp wit and a generous spirit".
260:. Furedy was promoted to associate professor at the University of Toronto in 1969, and subsequently to full professor in 1975 (until his retirement in 2005 and his appointment as emeritus professor).
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Farwell, L.A., Richardson, D.C., Richardson, G.M., & Furedy, J.J. (2014). Brain fingerprinting classification concealed information test detects US Navy military medical information with P300.
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Algan, O., Furedy, J.J., Demirgoren, S., Vincent, A., & Pogun, S. (1997). Effects of tobacco smoking and gender on interhemispheric cognitive function: Performance and confidence measures.
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Ben-Shakhar, G., & Furedy, J.J. (2012). Theories and applications in the detection of deception: A psychophysiological and international perspective. Springer
Science & Business Media.
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Furedy, J.J., & Kristjansson, M. (1996). Human
Pavlovian autonomic conditioning and its relation to awareness of the CS/US contingency: Focus on the phenomenon and some forgotten facts.
450:
Rosenfeld, J.P., Biroschak, J.R., & Furedy, J.J. (2006), P300-based detection of concealed autobiographical versus incidentally acquired information in target and non-target paradigms.
853:
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Furedy, J.J., & Biederman, G.B. (1986). Rationalist versus empirical approaches to observing and conditioned reinforcement: The (so-called) preference-for-signaled-shock phenomenon.
521:
Furedy, J.J. (1996). The North
American polygraph and psychophysiology: Disinterested, uninterested, and interested perspectives. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 21, 97-105.
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Furedy was born into a
Hungarian Jewish family, the son of Bela and Dusi Furedy. Having emigrated with his parents from a totalitarian society, and influenced by the intellectual
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Malmo, R.B., & Furedy, J.J. (1993). Settling the stimulus- substitution issue is propedeutic to sound ateologocial neural analysis of heart-rate deceleration conditioning.
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Kanit, L., Taskiran, D., Yilmaz, O.A., Balkan, B., Demirgoren, S., Furedy, J.J. & Pogun, S. (2000). Sexually dimorphic cognitive style in rats emerges after puberty.
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Furedy, J.J. (1968). Human orienting reaction as a function of electrodermal-versus plethysmographic response modes and single versus alternating stimulus series.
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Furedy, J.J. (1987). Beyond heart-rate in the cardiac psychophysiological assessment of mental effort: The T-wave amplitude component of the electrocardiogram.
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Furedy, J.J. (2002). Reflections on the Düring and Brand cases: political correctness and the current abandonment of academic autonomy in the culture of comfort.
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approach to higher education. Highly published in the experimental psychology peer-reviewed literature, he not only wrote conceptual pieces, but, also undertook
408:
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Furedy, J.J. (2004). Aping
Newtonian physics but ignoring brute facts will not transform Skinnerian psychology into genuine science or useful technology.
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Furedy, J.J. (1997). Velvet totalitarianism on
Canadian campuses: Subverting effects on the teaching of, and research in, the discipline of psychology.
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Dawson, M.E., & Furedy, J.J. (1975). The role of awareness in human differential autonomic classical conditioning: The necessary-gate hypothesis.
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Furedy, J.J. (1987). Why peer-reviewed research funding may negate the critical benefits of open journal review: It's not the show but the dough.
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Furedy, J.J. (1989). The North
American CQT Polygraph and the legal profession: A case of Canadian credulity and a cause for cultural concern.
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Furedy, J.J., Davis, C., & Gurevich, M. (1988). Differentiation of deception as a psychological process: A psychophysiological approach.
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Muter, P.M., Furedy, J.J., Vincent, A., & Pelcowitz, T. (1992). User-hostile systems and patterns of psychophysiological activity.
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Furedy, J.J., & Stanley, G. (1970). The apparent size of "projected" after- images under conditions where size-constancy holds.
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Furedy, J.J., & Shulhan, D. (1987). Specific versus placebo effects in biofeedback: Some brief back-to-basics considerations.
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During his academic career, aside from receiving numerous scholarships, Furedy was recipient of many Honors and Awards, including:
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Furedy, J.J. (1991). Realist versus instrumentalist approaches to clarifying the conditions for orienting response habituation.
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Furedy, J.J. (1999). On the limited role of the "single-subject" design in psychology: Hypothesis generating but not testing.
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Furedy, J.J., & Pogun, S. (2001). An investigative biobehavioral approach to sex differences in cognitive functioning.
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Furedy, J.J. & Wenderoth, P. (1979). The
Australian Ph.D. examination system: A critique and a proposal for reform.
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Soros Foundation Travelling Fellow (International Conference of Educational Philosophers, Pecs, Hungary), August, 1988.
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Furedy's research interests (expressed in over 400 mostly peer-reviewed publications) spanned across various areas in
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Furedy, J.J. (1985). Specific vs. placebo effects in biofeedback: Science-based vs. snake-oil behavioral medicine.
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deceptive persons can easily defeat polygraph "tests" through countermeasures, as did convicted spy Aldrich H. Ames."
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Furedy, J.J., & Champion, R.A. (1963). Cognitive and S-R interpretations of incentive-motivational phenomena.
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Gantt Medal of the Pavlovian Society for distinguished scholarly contributions and long-standing service, 2000.
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Theories and applications in the detection of deception: A psychophysiological and international perspective.
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Elected Fellow of the Physiological and Comparative Division of the American Psychological Association, 1978.
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The North American polygraph and psychophysiology: Disinterested, uninterested, and interested perspectives.
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as an assistant professor of psychology immediately following two years as a visiting faculty member at the
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Furedy, J.J., & Furedy, C.P. (1979). Daniel Berlyne and psychonomy: The beat of a different drum.
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Elected Fellow of the Teaching of Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, 1982.
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Elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division of Experimental Psychology), 1976.
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Stanley, G.V., & Furedy, J.J. (1966). Size constancy and Emmert's law of apparent sizes.
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Elected Charter Fellow of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, 1992.
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with his wife, Christine. He died on August 24, 2016, at his home in Sydney aged 76 years.
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In Memoriam: John J. Furedy (30 June 1940 to 24 August 2016) SAFS Newsletter 2016.
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Furedy, J.J. (2000) A Pavlovian in spirit: Richard Annels Champion (1925-1999).
336:. More recently, Furedy has collaborated on research into "brain fingerprinting".
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into how universities balance the conflicting demands of "merit" and "equity" (or
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Furedy, J.J. (1998). On the predictive value of TWA for cardiovascular disease.
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159:(June 30, 1940 – August 23, 2016) was a Hungarian-born Australian and Canadian
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Furedy, J.J., & Furedy, C. (2012). From the Socratic to the Sophistic.
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Elected Fellow of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, 1975.
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Elected Fellow of the International Organization of Psychophysiology, 1982.
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John J. Furedy, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto.
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Award for Research Excellence, Pavlovian Society of North America, 1982.
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at the University of Sydney in the late 1950s and the promotion of
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Elected Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, 1974.
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Balance between merit and equity in academic hiring decisions.
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Obituary: John J. Furedy. Anti-Polygraph Organization (2016).
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Clinical Biofeedback and Health: An International Journal, 8
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Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 30
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and distinguished research professor of psychology at the
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in psychology (with first-class honours), and a separate
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TVO - John Furedy - Psychology of Lying (December 2009)
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Obituary: John J. Furedy. The Globe and Mail (2016).
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459:Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27
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308:Scottish-Australian philosopher
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394:The Lie Behind The Lie Detector
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197:free speech
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