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Dec 5, 2013 · MyPlaylist. Lisa Diamond discussed her research on the fluidity of same-sex and other-sex attraction, and the similarities and differences in patterns of fluidity between men and women, Oct. 17, 2013 as part of the Human Development Outreach and Extension Program. Diamond is a professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah.
Oct 23, 2012 · In fact, men’s estimates of how attractive they were to their female friends had virtually nothing to do with how these women actually felt, and almost everything to do with how the men ...
- Women were better at detecting expressions of disgust. Conventional wisdom and a litany of past research suggest that women have a higher emotional quotient (EQ) than men.
- Men reported more loneliness earlier in life; women reported more of it later in life. Stereotypes of loneliness suggest that it increases with age.
- Men spent more time relaxing than women. Scientists at the University of Barcelona in Spain found that men spent a bigger portion of the day engaging in leisure pursuits than women did.
- Women and men may speak different languages—sort of. A team of psychologists led by Priyanka Joshi of San Francisco State University examined the degree to which men and women relied on "communicative abstraction" to verbally convey their ideas and emotions.
Participants’ brains appeared to be working very similarly in single-sex button-pushing pairs, researchers noticed. Pairs of men, and pairs that mixed women and men, were able to push their respective buttons simultaneously slightly more often than pairs of women. The research is too preliminary to suggest that either sex is better or worse ...
- “Mine’s Higher” vs. “We’re The Same”
- Different Styles, Similar Goals
- Family Ties
My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds. These interactions often led to misunderstandings because members of different groups had contrasting assumptions about what should be said and the appropri...
Despite these differences, women’s and men’s conversational styles are more alike than they may appear. Although these styles may seem opposite, they can be used for similar purposes. Boys and men are also concerned with connection and girls and women with power, even as they may have different ways of pursuing these goals. Verbal rituals that focu...
Family comes with built-in hierarchy as well as built-in connection. The hierarchy between parents and children is self-evident, but the same is true of siblings. Even though we use the phrases “like sisters” and “like brothers” to describe friendships that are close and equal, actual sibling relationships are defined not only by the connection of ...
- Deborah Tannen
May 16, 2024 · homelessness. A video posted to TikTok by lifestyle content creator Hunter shows both men and women entering the office for work—and there’s one stark difference between the two that has people chuckling. Women enter with at least two bags, plus multiple beverage cups. Meanwhile, their male co-workers enter completely empty handed.
Oct 23, 2017 · Women had the same number of contacts as men, they spent as much time with senior leadership, they had indistinguishable work patterns, and they scored equally in performance evaluations. Yet ...
