d by the mother, teacher and an observer, and the scores were averaged to show how shy the child was. This was important to know because it is presumed that shy children are less likely to open up to a therapist or teacher than are more outgoing children. Testers were trained on how to give nonverbal cues so that they appeared genuine yet did not vary from tester to tester.
             There were four phases to this experiment: the familiarity phase, the rapport building phase, the interview phase, and the post-interview phase. In the familiarity phase, the tester sat in on a couple of class sessions with the children, but did not interact with or address them. This was to establish distal familiarity. In the next phase, the rapport building phase, the tester used nonverbal cues in approaching the child and reading a story to them. The interview phase consisted of the tester asking the child questions about him/herself. In the post-interview phase, the child's teacher or teacher's assistant asked the child three questions t
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