Dr Cal Lightman Personality Traits

"Unpleasant truths, human mortality, a moustache on a woman - three things we'd all prefer to ignore" (Dr. Cal Lightman, Season 1, Episode 2). Dr. Cal Lightman, the main character of a discontinued television show titled 'Lie To Me', is a deception expert who runs a company dedicated to discovering the truth with his colleague, Gillan Foster. He reads 'micro' expressions on individuals faces and involuntary body language that is unnoticeable to the average person with a team under him to assist with his cases (Eli Loker, Ria Torres). Dr. Lightman is seen as a control freak, who uses humor as a defence mechanism and has a short temper when it comes to lies. He is a father of a teenage daughter, Emily, but is divorced from her mother. However,

These five factors include extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience (Hope, 2017). Within these primary factors of personality, Dr. Cal Lightman is hypothetically high on extroversion, low on agreeableness, middle-low on conscientiousness, high on neuroticism, and middle-high on openness to experience. Dr. Lightman is high on extroversion because he always wants to be the centre of attention, and tends to speak without thinking about it. This is evidenced by his interactions with his clients that he is trying to help, and how he displays eccentric behaviour in order for everyone to pay attention to him, even if it offends people. With these means, he is also very sociable, even if it gets him in trouble, and feeds off the energy of the people around him. Cal adjusts his behaviour to the situation or the individual, as well as socializes with anyone he considers interesting and is no stranger to being involved with known criminals. While Cal is high on extroversion, he is also high on neuroticism. Dr. Lightman gets upset easily, stresses and is anxious about his home, social, and work life, as well as insecure. This is demonstrated every time his mood shifts dramatically in a short period of time, gets jealous about the women in his life, and when he projects his feeling about a case, or something going on in his

Cal Lightman is an extrovert, not agreeable, somewhat unconscionable, neurotic, and sort of open to experiences. He is also a compassionate character too though, which is not considered when it comes to the Big Five Trait Taxonomy. The Big Five only considers five main aspects of personality (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience) and only defines and determines the extremes of them. There is not very much in-between or room for secondary personality traits, but it is valid and a good measure of basic personalities of all people, and considers both nature and nurture characteristics, which could be why it is a popular measure. Overall, the Big Five is an adequate measure of Dr. Cal Lightman's personality, but it does not consider all aspects of his personality. "We follow the truth here, right? No matter the cost to our egos or our wallets" (Dr. Cal Lightman, Season 2, Episode