Are Women Really More Talkative Than Men?

2007/07/06 by Matthias R. Mehl, Simine Vazire, Nairán Ramírez‐Esparza +2 · 1 voice · 14 citations
Psychology · Computer Science · Arts and Humanities · #Mental Health via Writing #Digital Communication and Language #Media Influence and Health

paper · doi:10.1126/science.1139940

Abstract

Women are generally assumed to be more talkative than men. Data were analyzed from 396 participants who wore a voice recorder that sampled ambient sounds for several days. Participants' daily word use was extrapolated from the number of recorded words. Women and men both spoke about 16,000 words per day.

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• I also enjoyed coming across this study by Mehl et al. (2007), who investigated whether there are gender differences in the number of words produced, given longstanding assumptions that women are more [bsky, 8 points, 1 comments]

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