Cue-counting: A measure of anxiety in interviews.

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Abstract
In a study of anxiety in interviews among 39 psychiatric patients of a VA hospital with diagnoses of "psychoneurosis, character disorder, or psychosomatic reaction," it was found that certain cues could be delineated which were indicative of anxiety. A count of these speech cues reflecting "disorganization, emotional involvement, and defensiveness" showed this to be a promising technique. Among a series of speech characteristics which were believed scorable and related to situational anxiety were the following, in which the subject left a sentence unfinished, broke into a sentence with a new thought, repeated words or phrases, stuttered, used "I don''t know," not in answer to a direct question, "but as in resignation, disgust, or despair," and voice change, in which the voice became louder or lower.
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