On this show “lie to me”, the whole premise is that people show micro expressions that show how a person really feels (as opposed to controlled expressions). Is there any truth to that, or is it made up? How much control do we have over our expressions?
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Poker players have been doing this for years to try to get an idea of how good the hands of the other people are. Thus we have the “poker face,” hiding all indications of emotion, and the “tell,” the failure of someone to hide the emotion.
So take what poker players have been doing for a long time and turn it into a science. Classify all the tells by testing the expression responses of a large group of people. This is what scientist Paul Ekman did, and the basis for the show. In the show, Lightman is Eckman.
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