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Sense of Timing

A Skill Deficit in Heterosexual-Socially Anxious Males

Purdue University

James P. Curran

Purdue University

H. W. Wessberg

Purdue University

Groups of high socially anxious, low socially skilled (socially incompetent), and low socially anxious, high socially skilled (socially competent) under-graduate males were selected using both a self-report measure of social anxiety and behavioral ratings of both skill and anxiety in a simulated role-play of a dating situation. Selected subjects were then requested to (1) listen to a ten-minute videotape of a female speaker discussing her life and (2) press a switch whenever they felt a response would communicate understanding or rapport. The hypothesis that socially incompetent and competent individuals would respond with the same frequency but would differ in the timing or distribution of their responses was affirmed. The results suggested timing of responses to be an important component of social skill and called into question the adequacy of using frequency counts of behaviors to investigate the specific nature of social skill. Implications for both assessment and treatment of social skill deficits are offered.

Behavior Modification, Vol. 1, No. 2, 179-194 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/014544557712002


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