Research on Detecting Deception Has Consistently Shown That

question 2

Multiple Choice

Research on detecting deception has consistently shown that

• A) people are generally very good at distinguishing between truth and lies.
• B) there are small individual differences in people's ability to detect lies.
• C) people are only slightly better than chance when it comes to distinguishing between truth and lies.
• D) experts, like police detectives and judges rarely make errors in lie detection.

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