High Communication Observation

Each of these studies suggests that behaviors that we would expect people with high communication apprehension to exhibit more frequently in their communication are associated with negative perceptions on the part of other people. Studies specifically directed toward testing this hypothesis have produced supportive results.
People exhibiting high communication apprehension, compared to those with lower communication apprehension, have been found to be perceived as less socially attractive, less task attractive. less competent, less sexually attractive, less attractive as a communication partner, less sociable, less composed, and less extroverted but of slightly higher character (McCroskey and Richmond, 1976; Quiggens, 1972; Wissmiller and

In a very similar study, Daly and Leth (1976) found that the high communication apprehension applicant was perceived as less competent, and projected to be less successful on the job, to require more training, to be less satisfied on the job, and to have more difficulty establishing good relationships with

McCroskey, 1976; McCroskey, 1977; McCroskey and Andersen, 1976). Students with high communication apprehension, as compared to those with low communication apprehension, have been found to have lower overall college grade-point averages (McCroskey and Andersen. 1976), to evidence lower achievement on standardized tests administered at the completion of high school (Bashore, 1971; McCroskey and Andersen, 1976), to receive lower marks in small classes in junior high school (Hurt, Preiss, and Davis, 1976) and college (Scott and Wheeless. 1976), and to develop negative attitudes toward school in both junior high school (Hurt, Preiss, and Davis, 1976) and college (McCroskey and Sheahan, 1976). All of these effects have been found to occur in spite of the fact that no meaningful relationship has been found between communication apprehension and intelligence (Bashore, 1971; Davis, 1977) or between communication apprehension and success in large lecture classes at the college level (McCroskey and Andersen,