A social scenario approach was used to test hypotheses about the order of disclosure in same-sex and mixed-sex developing friendships of four types of statements: positive intrapersonal, negative intrapersonal, positive interpersonal, negative interpersonal. Results indicated that, as predicted, disclosures about the self precede disclosures of reactions to the other. Positively valenced disclosures occurred before negative ones. Negative interpersonal statements were consistently disclosed last. Intimacy level, the conventional predictor of timing of disclosure, was controlled for. A replication of this study which changed the content of statements within the framework of the typology strongly supports these findings. (Author)