“…The amount of supportive feedback one receives during an interaction also affects expectations of success and hence anxiety. As compared with warm, supportive, noncritical audiences, cold, nonsupportive, or critical ones produce shorter interactions and fewer words spoken (Drennen & Wiggins, 1964;Pope & Siegman, 1968;Reece, 1964;Reece & Whitman, 1962). Subjects who receive negative interpersonal feedback speak less and with longer speech latencies (Cervin, 1956;Miller, 1964;Taylor, Altman, & Sorrentino, 1969) and are less self-disclosing (Taylor et al, 1969).…”