When the 'entertainment meets education: panel discussion with Ekman and producers of Lie To Me On June 10, 2010 P. Ekman, Lie to me the writer Samuel Baum, the producer David Nevins and actor Brendan Hines (Eli Loker of "Lie to Me") are meeting for a conference sponsored by the Smithsonian .
Ekman began citing the intersection of entertainment and education "If education is good and fun, fun is helpful if you can learn something that you do not yet know"
Not everyone knows it, that Professor Paul Ekman co-wrote the series "Lie to me as scientific coordinator in order to give quell'imprinting likely the product of television.
At the conference, after telling how he met Nevins and Samuel Baum, Ekman tested a 4-minute video clip taken from an episode of Lie to me, observing that in those 4 minutes were 12 true scientific concepts .
analyzing other video went on to say that is not always in the show are explained correctly the scientific claims about micro expressions. Conceivably the show should "emphasize" some ideas to make television, otherwise the formula would not work, also because we are still in the field of "science-fiction."
After a long debate, which was also attended by the audience, many questions have been made to Professor Ekman on its research, all'implicazione matter in politics, and ethics of the show.
Then Ekman added that immediately accepted the proposal because the manufacturer Baum immediately recognized his professionalism, "did not seem the manufacturer usually superficial, far from it! When he realized that I had studied all my research and the idea to collaborate on a television project based on my scientific theories attracts me. "
Asked how the show has had on his life, the actor Brendan Hines said that now pays a great deal of attention to people's faces in the hope of being able to capture every emotion of the person in front of him, but for the moment, he admitted, there is still successful.
