This paper reports the results of four experiments that explored the potential use of some quantitative and qualitative measures of verbal indicants of experienced anxiety in verbal performance situations. Fifty-four first and second year psychology students, who were assigned to four experimental groups on the basis of their self-rating on a pre-experimental screening questionnaire, participated in the experiments. The hypothesis that two `polar opposite' groups would be most freqently differentiable (in terms of their quantitative verbal scores in the verbal task performance situations) of the four groups, consistently in all the experiments, was surpported by the results. It was concluded that the possible `habitual factor' of verbal indicants of experienced anxiety is amenable to behavioural modification as is also social avoidance by means of a suggested `confrontation therapy'.