An attempt to replicate Taffel's study on the relationship between verbal conditioning and scores on the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (see 31: 2490) yielded different results. Although Taffel's High Anxiety and Medium Anxiety groups conditioned, in this study the Low Anxiety group conditioned but the High Anxiety group did not. The results may be explained by assuming that Taffel's findings pertain only to the specific subject group which he used or that they result from chance coincidence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)