A caveat is issued regarding simplistic comparisons of the potency of verbal versus nonverbal cues. To illustrate the danger, data are reported from a study in which high school students judged the meaning communicated by various face-sentence pairings. Judgments were shown to be highly dependent on the nature of the questions asked.
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