The duration of utterance, latency, and interruption speech behavior of 30 young job applicants was studied under three speaking conditions. In the third condition, the employment interview, a number of positive correlations emerged. Verbal IQ is positively correlated with a speaker's mean duration of utterance, especially when he is discussing…

By employing an analytic method developed by the authors entitled the Inventory of Dramatic Behavior, this project set out to accomplish the following goals: (1) to provide a developmental profile of dramatic behavior of Florida elementary school children, (2) to correlate such data with previous results from a New York City sample, and (3) to…