Selective listening/biased listening occurs when: A. we respond with aggression and argue with the speaker without fully listening to the message adaptor. B. we listen in order to control the communication interaction. C. we fail to pay attention to the emotional content of someone’s message. D. we focus only on information that interests us and disregard other messages.

Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "we know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself. there is no evidence that it is audrey. in fact, she's too clean, if you know what i mean. somebody should fire audrey; she's got to be the spy." by making this argument chris is actually engaging in (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) an appeal to ignorance fallacy (d) circular reasoning (e) an appeal to the mob fallacy