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The potentials in the muscles of speech in an interviewer and his patient were found to vary according to whether the interviewer was praising or criticizing the patient. On days when the interviewer's mood was 'bad', the patients showed significantly higher heart rates even when the interviewer did not, and
even though he made exactly the same prepared statements to the subjects on each day. It is suggested that the interviewer's mood was conveyed to the subjects by his intonation or possibly by other nonverbal cues.