1. If you could pick your own sex for the next life
1. If you were given the chance to be born again, would you stay a man or a woman? Why?
2. If you chose an opposite sex, what would you like to do most?
3. What are the worst disadvantages being your gender right now?
4. Do you want to be born again with the same appearance?
What's your idealistic appearance?
5. When you have kids, would you demand conventional roles from them?
6. If you became an opposite sex, are you willing to marry present yourself?
2. Lie to Me
Plot
Based on the real-life scientific discoveries of Paul Ekman, the series follows Lightman and his team of deception experts as they assist law enforcement and government agencies to expose the truth behind the lies.
The season opens with Cal and Gillian hiring a new associate: former TSA officer Ria Torres. Ria scored extraordinarily high on Cal's deception detection diagnostic, and is labeled a "natural" at deception detection. Her innate talent in the field clashes with Cal's academic approach, and he often shows off by rapidly analyzing her every facial expression. She counters by reading Lightman and when he least expects it, peppers conversations with quotes from his books.
It was gradually revealed that Dr. Lightman was driven to study micro-expressions as a result of guilt over his mother's suicide; she claimed to have been fine, when she was actually experiencing great sorrow.
For a small number of the early episodes Lightman would team up with Torres working on a case, while Foster and Loker would team up on a separate case. Occasionally their work would intertwine or Foster or Lightman would provide assistance on each others cases. As the first season progressed, the cases became more involved and all four of the main characters would work together on one case for each episode. This formulaic technique is often used in the first episodes of a new series to help establish the characters.
In addition to detecting deception in subjects they interview, Lightman and his team also use various interviewing and interrogation tactics to elicit information that is useful to their cases. Rather than by force, they instead use careful lines of questions, provocative statements, theatrics and healthy doses of deception on their own part. In the show's pilot episode, Lightman is speaking to a man who is refusing to speak at all, and is able to discern vital information by talking to him and gauging his reaction to each statement.
The Main Character, Dr. Cal Lightman
Dr. Cal Lightman is a psychologist with an expertise in body language and especially micro-expressions, and founder of The Lightman Group, a private company that operates as an independent contractor to assist investigations of local and federal law enforcement through applied psychology. Though often confronted by people's skepticism, Lightman uses any psychological technique he deems necessary to reach the truth, however elaborate or truculent. He is divorced, and has split custody of his teenage daughter. He cares deeply about Gillian Foster, and there is a chemistry between them that has yet to develop into anything more. His mother committed suicide while he was still young, an event that led him to discovering and researching micro-expressions. There is evidence he was involved in the Irish National Liberation Army, due to the fact that Reynolds has said "Yeah, I read your file too. Northern Ireland? Let's talk about that...some of the crap you were involved in." The character is based on Dr. Paul Ekman; notable psychologist and expert on body language and facial expressions at UC San Francisco. He is also a vegetarian.
1. How often do you lie a day on average?
2. Do you believe the necessity of white lies?
3. When do you tell lies mostly?
4. When people lie, can you recognize it by analyzing their expressions?
5. Do you want to know every lie which your spouse or companion makes?