“…Additionally, in the Rapee and Lim (1992) study, although differences between the socially phobic and nonclinical group were found on observer ratings on specific items, no differences were found on observer ratings for the global items (e.g., kept audience interested, spoke well). Furthermore, although confederates rated socially anxious participants' performance more poorly than that of non-anxious participants in the Segrin and Kinney (1995) study, there were no significant differences between the two groups on global ratings. In addition, in this same study there were also no differences between the two groups in actual conversational behaviors (e.g., talk time, number of speaking turns, gaze frequency, gaze duration, silence, etc.…”