The Four-Factor Model Suggests That Several Factors Affect a Person's

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Multiple Choice

The Four-Factor Model suggests that several factors affect a person's behavior while lying. These four factors include

• A) personality, gender, context, and type of lie.
• B) attempted control, arousal, cognitive effort, and felt emotions.
• C) behavioral familiarity, informational familiarity, lie bias, and truth bias.
• D) suspicion, the probing heuristic, behavioral adaptation, and culture.

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