06 December 2007

Men, women and talkativeness...

People take note of this recent research: "Contrary to the prediction, men were more talkative ... than were women. As expected, men used more assertive speech, whereas women used more affiliative speech"
A Meta-Analytic Review of Gender Variations in Adults' Language Use: Talkativeness, Affiliative Speech, and Assertive Speech -- Leaper and Ayres 11 (4): 328 -- Personality and Social Psychology Review:
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