Are women really more talkative than men?

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5834, 2007, Pages 82-

  Mehl, Matthias R ^a   Vazire, Simine ^b   Ramírez Esparza, Nairán ^c   Slatcher, Richard B ^c   Pennebaker, James W ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DATA ACQUISITION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

CONVERSATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34447319368     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139940     Document Type: Short Survey

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8. Details on methods and analysis are available on Science Online.
9. This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (MH 52391). We thank V. Dominguez, J. Greenberg, S. Holleran, C. Mehl, M. Peterson, and T. Schmader for their valuable feedback.