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I cannot remember where, but I'm fairly sure I've read that Ekman's Truth Wizards are more likely to come from a background of childhood domestic violence. Google is failing me, though, so if anyone else can corroborate this (or alternatively let me know if it was spurious bullcrap I saw on Lie To Me), that would be appreciated.
Apparently, most of what one sees on Lie To Me is spurious. At any rate, viewing the show causes people to make more false positive identifications of deception relative to a control group, without being any more accurate at catching real deception:
The Impact of Lie To Me on Viewers' Actual Ability to Detect Deception
You mean, you can't detect lies by standing three inches from someone and squinting up their nostrils?
I don't know if if that's true or in print, but I do remember it being mentioned on Lie To Me, in the context of Torres' background. But at least one Truth Wizard believes it's bunk, and I couldn't find anything on Ekman's blog about the subject one way or another.
See, I haven't actually seen that much of the show, and I've definitely not seen that storyline. I still can't seem to find anything to substantiate it, though, so provisionally chalking it down as spurious bullcrap seems safe.