Identify a true statement about detecting deception.

A. Cognitive processing and response times to tasks and questions tend to speed up when someone is answering questions deceptively.
B. The best lie detectors attend to verbal information more than nonverbal information.
C. Most people perform no better than the accuracy rate of chance guessing in detecting deception from people's behavior.
D. The polygraph machine is the most reliable lie detector because it rarely yields false positive results.

Answer: C

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