Fifth and sixth grade children served as Ss to assess the effects of scuttlebutt, intersubject communication, on experimental research. The technique employed 2 test stimuli (LEFT and ETLF) which consisted of letters “embedded” between meaningless black shapes such that the letters were continuous with ground. On the first testing day half of the children were tested. Each S was shown the stimulus LEFT and asked to tell E what he saw. All Ss were told the correct answer and requested not to tell anyone about the experiment. On the second day the stimulus presented was ETLF. In the first study candy was used as a reward; in the second study no reward was used. Chi-square analyses showed a significant amount of intersubject communication was demonstrated in both studies although full communication, i.e., specification of the correct response, primarily occurred in the presence of reward.