“…They also rate themselves less disclosive, less honest, more superficial (McCroskey & Richmond, 1977;Stacks & Stone, 1983) and generally less social (McCroskey & Sheahan, 1978) than persons low in communication apprehension. Further, although some evidence suggests that initial interaction behavior is unaffected by interlocutors' apprehensiveness (Burgoon, Pfau, Birk, & Manusov, 1987;Richmond, 1978), persons may avoid situations because they are communicatively apprehensive (Daly & Stafford, 1984;McCroskey, 1982a). Ayres (1989) recently reported that, in unstructured first meetings, high communication apprehensives self-disclose less than persons low in communication apprehension.…”