"Lie to me" tv show

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say to him that u wanna see can he get free and after u made sure he cant just go watch show (remember to release him after though )

I just started watching this show online. I think that the show oversimplifies things but gets it right more than half of the time; if you go to the website of Dr.Eckman (the basis for the Lightman character), or to the blog of the show where Eckman comments, you'll see him equivocating and stating that it's not quite as cut-and-dry as the show makes it out to be. He's definitely arrogant, but not quite in the way that people on this thread are assuming him to be.

That seems to be true of most 'experts' in any field - people who hear about the 'expert' second-hand thinks that the expert must think that they know *everything* about their field of expertise, but the expert themselves will generally be the first to admit what they *don't* know and that things aren't quite as black and white as the media makes out (while simultaneously admitting that they know the field better than anyone else).

we were talking about this in sociology!! !!
like theres a difference between a fake smile and a real smile.
we you really smile you get wrinkles by your eyes that means its not a fake smile.
but yeah i watched that show too its amazing!! !

I watch this show every Wednesday. I think I have some of the facial "microexpressions" that indicate I am lying (mainly the "nervous" related ones) but 99.9% of the time I don't lie. I am a very honest person and believe lying is wrong. My facial expression never matches what I am trying to say or even my mood for that matter. I have weird facial movements to outsiders might look like I am lying, but I even do them without saying anything!

I've watched a few shows, and I can't *see* the microexpressions at all until they are slowed down. Then it's pretty obvious.

you know, I see those in real life. I have often thought, wow, they are poor poker players! I didn't know they couldn't control them!

What the show said is that the same automatic expressions they don't have to think about, they just have them, are all connected to their brain and when they FEEL it in their brain (or where ever it is they feel it their faces just jerk into that expression spontaneously.

what a hassle!

Merle