Acknowledgements

The effort and good will of many people have enabled completion of this dissertation. Paul Ekman, my major professor for ten years, was the most important contributor. I thank him for his sustained interest in my academic progress. Wallace V. Friesen provided saving direction at crucial points in the research, for which I am grateful. I thank Jeannine Herron and David Galin, members of the dissertation committee, for their thorough review of the research and their helpful and significant criticism.

Other contributors include Robert Levenson, Jim Litronik, and David Matsumoto (reliability scorers); Fred Ohler (electronics); Enoch Callaway, Alan Fridlund, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Bill Garoutte (readers and consultants); Bruce Stegner and Alan Bostrum (use of their CRISP statistical package for the IBM PC); Marty Kamp and the UCSF Computer Center (timesharing). I thank them and the women who participated as subjects in this study.