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“Talking Emotions”: Gender Differences in a Variety of Conversational Contexts
Author(s) -
Goldshmidt Orly Turgeman,
Weller Leonard
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.2000.23.2.117
Subject(s) - psychology , feeling , variety (cybernetics) , perspective (graphical) , dominance (genetics) , social psychology , context (archaeology) , developmental psychology , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , artificial intelligence , biology , computer science , gene
Based on numerous studies demonstrating gender differences in both language and emotions, we investigated whether women are more verbally expressive of their feelings than men. Data from eleven samples, based on four methods of data collection (observations, “hidden” observations, interviews, and content analysis), were analyzed as to whether women used more emotional words than men. In each of the eleven samples, women used significantly more emotional words. The findings relate to two theoretical issues in the literature: “dominance” versus “cultural” perspective of gender and language and the importance of context in analyzing gender differences in language.