India, Feb. 4 -- There is a common belief in the society that women speak more than men. Based on this assumption, the researchers from the University of Arizona, also known as U of A, conducted a study to explore the truth.
"There is a strong cross-cultural assumption that women talk a lot more than men," said Colin Tidwell, co-lead study author and a clinical psychology doctoral candidate. "We wanted to see whether or not this assumption holds when empirically tested."
The study was initially conducted by U of A psychologist Matthias Mehl in 2007, involving 500 participants, who wore a device called the electronically activated recorder or EAR to randomly record snippets of their day-to-day conversations.
The findings showed that men a...