Cal Liteman's lie theory

People often think of one thing, but they say something else. Contrary to everything, they also do absolutely not what they thought and said. Emotional state can absolutely not correspond to thoughts, speech, or deeds. Such complex beings are these people.

With such a hard material throughout the series "Deceive me" works Dr. Cal Lightman. He analyzes the crimes, working with his team The Lightman Group. This is a group of people studying the basic nuances of reading by persons, analyzing the body language. They help the protagonist in uncovering crimes.

What formed the basis of the series

The basis of the American series Lie To Me, or "Deceive me," was based on material from the book Paul Eckman, who was engaged in psychological practice throughout his life. He investigated the microexpression of people from people of different professions, beliefs, beliefs, way of life. Working in a psychiatric hospital in San Francisco, a young psychologist conducted interviews with patients, filming it. After that he repeatedly looked through many kilometers of footage, highlighting the gestures that the patients demonstrated, reinforcing their emotions. His confidence that he, using all the material he's working on, can tell a hundred percent, say lies or tell the truth a person, practically brought to naught the case that occurred in a psychiatric hospital.

In the film there is an archive video with a real record of the patient Ekman. Her face microexpressions were discovered by a psychiatrist quite accidentally while viewing the material, using a second-second freeze frame, and became the basis of the science of recognizing lies. That is, in a fraction of a second the person on the face in the form of emotion flashes the truth, immediately covered by a lie. In the series, Cal Lightman appeared as a man who recognizes in people lies and truth, reading micro-expressions on their faces and paying attention to gestures. This gave him Paul Ekman and the last name came up with Lightman, which, in English, sounds like a bright man.

Cal Lightman - the protagonist of the series

The case in the psychiatric hospital is in the canvas of the series. According to the story of Cal Lightman, the death of his mother led to the study of the theory of lies. She committed suicide. He looks through the record of her conversation with a psychologist and, slowing down the film, sees on her face the very microexpression of flour that the author of the book, which became the basis of the series, Paul Ekman, discovered for himself.

Many who have watched this series wonder whether, in fact, you can actually read people like Cal Lightman like a book? This idea is prompted by the plots of the film, where it is clear that there is no difficulty in determining the lie. The liar himself gives signs that you just need to make out what Cal Lightman is just a master. He believes that everyone lies. Minutes of communication with a person give him material to draw such a conclusion. He believes that reveals the authenticity of the facts, analyzing the behavior of a person. In principle, if one is guided only by assessing the behavior of a person by his gestures, correct conclusions can not be drawn. The person has orienting reflexes, which arise either involuntarily, as before the exam, or in fact just combed his nose, and this does not mean that now the person will lie.

The method of recognizing lies

Who carefully watched all the series of "The Theory of Lies" and tried to analyze how the lie is being recognized, most likely came to the conclusion that the characters of the series Ria Torres and Cal Lightman are not really a lie, they are interested in human emotions. Lightman asks a question and sees the answer on the person's face, even if he is silent. The creators of the film endowed this couple with high emotional intelligence, implying the ability to understand both their own feelings and understand the mood of people. In the film, they cope with their task, analyzing facial expressions, realizing what the person is feeling at the moment: they recognize lies, save them from the prison of innocent people, the criminals go to jail.

The whole method by which Cal Lightman could "figure out" the interlocutor consisted in studying five information channels coming from the interlocutor. These include a person, non-verbal signals produced by the body, voice, speech style and communication itself. Analyzing this, they conclude whether the person is lying or not. Even if we assume that a person can somehow try to deceive the interviewer by training, he will not succeed. Lying is a complicated thing. It needs to be monitored.

Methods, except psychodiagnostics ...

Not everything in the series is built on the extraction of facts and confessions only on visual psychodiagnostics. The methods that Laitman and his assistants sometimes apply are not the method of the theory of lies. These are threats, psychological pressure and hacking, helping to get the truth in another way. It can be said that there is an intertwining of the ways of extracting the information necessary for the investigation.

What makes you lie

In the series, one can see the personal life of Laitman. Mother committed suicide, with the wife in divorce, there are attitudes, but they are not developing. It's very difficult to be happy when you feel a lie literally at every turn. And a lie, always justified. Some believe that the truth to speak is simply meaningless. Everyone walks in masks, which are difficult to get rid of. Therefore, people's relations are built on deception. The smile first of all disguises the person, it hides negative emotions: anger, fear. Smiling, it is easier to deceive the interlocutor.

Quotations from the series

"No one can speak only the truth - it's after all subjective; We evaluate all points of view of personal experience - that's the truth, "- says Cal Lightman. Quotes and aphorisms of the protagonist, after the release of the series on television screens, sometimes dazzles the communication of people. Very accurately and capaciously, Laitman in the series gives answers, sharpens, puts forward theories. Well, for example, quotes from Cal Lightman: "This is the nature of man - if there is a button, it is necessary to press" or "Lack of emotions is just as important as their availability."

All people are inherently emotional, and, as the protagonist of the film says, everyone lies. Only depends on everything, what color glasses on the nose of the seeker of truth.