Melissa is participating in a deception detection study.She is given a set of 12 videos to watch and is required to indicate whether the person in the video is telling the truth or lying.She indicates that she believes 10 of the 12 to be telling the truth.Her results demonstrate what phenomenon in deception detection studies?
A)A lie bias
B)The challenge of determining ground truth
C)A truth bias
D)Wizard-like detection ability
E)The cognitive complexity hypothesis

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Melissa's results demonstrate a truth bias, which is the tendency for people to believe that others are telling the truth.

Melissa Is Participating in a Deception Detection Study