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Judging emotion from the nonverbal properties of speech requires elimination of verbal cues. 3 methods of doing this are investigated: (a) a constant, ambiguous set of words for various emotional expressions; (b) filtering out the frequencies which permit word recognition; (c) speech in a language unknown to the listener. 1 actors portrayed the emotions, which were judged by 27 Ss, under all 3 conditions. Constant verbal content virtually requires artificially prepared situations. Filtered speech judgments depend partially on different individual differences from judgments of normal speech. Foreign speech (here, Japanese) may have different nonverbal cues from English.

Because the full Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) generally takes more than an hour of the clinician's time to administer, short forms based on a selection of subscales are often substituted. The present study shows that in many cases such short forms may give seriously inaccurate results.Full WAIS protocols were used from 41 psychiatric patients selected in order of admission to an open psychiatric ward in a Veterans Administration Hospital. 2 Ages ranged from 20 to 46, with a mean of 33.2 and a standard deviation of 7.2. Diagnoses included borderline schizophrenia, personality disorder, and psychophysiological reaction. IQs calculated by Doppelt's short form (Doppelt, 19S6) correlated .94 (Pearson r) with Full Scale, comparable to previously found correlations in clinical samples (Clayton & Payne, 19S9). IQs were also estimated by the more common method of simply prorating a sum of subscale scores. Those used were the Information, Similarities, and Block Design subtests (ISB triad), the triad which has the highest correlation with Full-Scale scores for the standardization group of the WAIS (Wechsler, 1958). The ISB triad correlated .89 with the Full Scale.Classification was next done according to the categories defined by Wechsler (19SS): mental defective, borderline, dull normal, average,

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