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The present investigation examined perception of persons who emitted unsolicited self-disclosure as compared to perception of persons who emitted solicited self-disclosure. Sex differences were also examined. Subjects were 158 undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to listen
to one of four audiotapes. The audiotaped vignette consisted of actors emitting either solicited or unsolicited selfdisclosure. Subjects rated the actors on social skillfulness, social appropriateness, and interpersonal attraction. Unsolicited self-disclosers were rated as significantly less
socially appropriate and interpersonally attractive. A significant interaction effect of disclosure mode by actor sex was also found for social skillfulness. The female was viewed as less socially skillful than the male when she failed to solicit disclosure. Explanations of these findings
and their implications are discussed.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Part I Genders -- Dark Admissions -- Queens of the Damned -- Peri Gothous -- Men in Black -- Part II Performances -- This Modern Goth (Explains Herself) -- Playing Dress Up -- Undead Fashion -- ''Goth Damage'' and Melancholia -- Part III Localities -- ''To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant'' -- ''Ah am witness to its authenticity'' -- The (Un)Australian Goth -- Part IV Artifacts -- Atrocity Exhibitions -- Material Distinctions -- Geek/Goth -- The Authentic Dracula -- Part V Communities -- ''When you kiss me, I want to die'' -- The Cure, the Community, the Contempt! -- ''We are all individuals, but we've all got the same boots on!'' -- Part VI Practices -- That Obscure Object of Desire Revisited -- God's Own Medicine -- Gothic Fetishism -- The Aesthetic Apostasy -- References -- Contributors -- Index