Women communicate better and talk less than men

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Research shows that women communicate better and actually talk less than men. Men use a few simple words in social situations with a limited vocabulary.

21 February,2011 11:39 am

Researchers after studying how men and women communicate concluded that men speak more words than women in a day, have a weaker command of language in social situations, use the same words repeatedly and pay unconvincing compliments.Researchers found that when conversation centered on serious issues such as current affairs men and women used similar language, but they differed widely when it came to chit-chat in social situations. The team of researchers carried recording devices over a one week period in order to transcribe 50 conversations, which were split between men and women in serious and social conversations. Geoffrey Beattie a researcher at the Manchester University said, It is men who are more likely to talk for the sake of talking when engaged in social chit-chat by recycling their words with ritualistic and redundant language that doesnt contain new information. Men used a few simple words in social situations with a limited vocabulary when it came to paying compliments, researchers said. The study showed compliments from men were 90 percent predictable, frequently making use of words you, really and nice while women had more detail in their compliments, making them less predictable and genuine.Only two out of 56 separate studies analyzing the difference in communication between men and women concluded that women use more words per day than men, while 24 concluded that men use more.