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College male undergraduates, either high frequency (HFD) or low frequency daters (LFD), were compared on a variety of self-report, peer rating, and behavioral measures of social competence in heterosexual interactions. Self-report measures of social anxiety and peer ratings of social anxiety and skill showed highly significant differences between the two groups. On an audiotaped social performance task, HFD subjects responded with shorter latencies and more words per response than did LFD subjects. There were relatively few behavioral differences between the groups on two social performance tasks involving live interaction with a female confederate. Only rated social skill and number of silences in the conversations significantly discriminated between the groups. Further, intercorrelations within and across tasks suggested that many of the specific verbal activity measures were highly intercorrelated, and …