80 children--selected as being either high or low on exhibitionism (an audience seeking tendency) and audience anxiety (a tendency to be anxious about performing before others) according to scores on 2 questionnaire scales--told stories to an adult either with or without prior exposure to a brief period of social isolation. It was found that isolated children who were high in audience anxiety told significantly shorter stories than nonisolated high anxiety children, while the stories of isolated and nonisolated low anxiety Ss did not differ in length. An analysis of length of speech according to exhibitionism level yielded no significant differences, but isolated high exhibitionism boys tended to speak at a faster rate than other groups. Boys also spoke significantly longer than girls. (17 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)