Wendy R. Alloway

W. Alloway (Wendy R. Alloway) was affiliated with Boise State University, where she conducted polygraph research in collaboration with Charles R. Honts in the early 2000s. Her publication record indicates she was active in the field during 2001-2002, contributing to research on polygraph validity and attitudes toward psychophysiological credibility assessment.

Alloway's primary research contributions focused on examining whether information countermeasures affect the validity of the Comparison Question Test (CQT). Her work examined whether the provision of detailed information about the CQT and possible countermeasures—now widely available on the Internet—would affect the validity of the Test for Espionage and Sabotage, a directed lie variant of the CQT. The published study with Honts, which appeared in Legal and Criminological Psychology in 2007, found that information does not affect the validity of a comparison question test. She also contributed to survey research examining general acceptance of the polygraph by the scientific community through two surveys of professional attitudes, presented at the American Psychology-Law Society biennial meeting in 2002.

Working as part of a research team at Boise State University, Alloway collaborated with Cvencek, Honts, and others on a 2001 study finding that psycho-legal scholars report positive attitudes towards polygraph validity. Her collaboration with Charles R. Honts, a leading figure in polygraph research, placed her work within the broader debates about the scientific validity of polygraph testing and contributed to understanding how informed examinees respond to polygraph examinations.