Responds to criticisms (e.g., C. E. Izard, see record 1981-31548-001) of the present authors' (see record 1981-00499-001) article. The present authors provide additional methodological detail demonstrating that most of the methodological criticisms are mistaken or irrelevant to the hypothesis that they intended to test. (14 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)