The Relevance of Specific Conversational Behaviors to Ratings of Social Skill: An Experimental Analysis

The search for specific conversational skill deficits among socially anxious people has been difficult. It has not been hard to show that persons who identify themselves as socially anxious or who date infrequently evaluate their social interactions negatively. But it has been considerably harder to pinpoint the social behaviors that these people may lack. This is true despite the fact that behavioral coders, confederates, and naïve subjects often rate such individuals more negatively on social skill ratings.
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