Studies of observers' ability to detect whether people are lying or telling the truth indicate that the number of observers' correct judgments are ________ than one would predict from chance.
A) dramatically greater
B) only slighter greater
C) somewhat less
D) dramatically less

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Studies have shown that observers' ability to detect lies is only slightly better than chance, indicating that human lie detection is not highly accurate.

Studies of Observers' Ability to Detect Whether People Are Lying