The present study examined two behavioral indicators, i.e., the number of initiations of conversation and the number of personal statements uttered in a brief conversation, for 26 heterosocially anxious males as they interacted with a female confederate and correlated these measures with scores on five self-report scales. Most self-report measures correlated well with one another and the personal statements measure correlated with two of the self-report measures.
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