Jesse L. Martin can tell when you’re lying.
“There’s also intense eye contact,” he said, demonstrating this across a low table in the bar of a downtown hotel last week.
Martin, 55, plays Alec Mercer, a professor of behavioral science at a fictional university.
He solves each week’s case by applying one or more behavioral science concepts — the halo effect, the Barnum effect, paradoxical persuasion.
Almost pathologically observant, Alec is based on Dan Ariely, a superstar in the field of behavioral science, and Martin has absorbed a morsel of those powers.
Persons:
Jesse L, Martin, “ There’s, ”, Alec Mercer, Alec, Barnum, Dan Ariely, Martin —
Organizations:
NBC, Broadway, NBC’s “
Locations:
New York, Vancouver, British Columbia