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ArticleJournal of personality and social psychology2025

Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered report of binary gender similarities/differences in daily word use.

Colin A Tidwell, Alexander F Danvers, Valeria A Pfeifer, Danielle B Abel, Eva Alisic, Andrew Beer, Sabrina J Bierstetel, Kathryn L Bollich-Ziegler, Michelle Bruni, William R Calabrese and 26 more

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Article in Journal of personality and social psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Men talk less than women during multitasking.Psychological research · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

36 authors.

Colin A TidwellDepartment of Psychology, University of Arizona.ORCID 0000-0003-1748-2440
Alexander F DanversSierra Tucson.
Valeria A PfeiferDepartment of Psychology, University of Arizona.
Danielle B AbelSchool of Science, Indiana University Indianapolis.
Eva AlisicMelbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.
Andrew BeerDepartment of Psychology, University of South Carolina Upstate.
Sabrina J BierstetelDepartment of Psychology, Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Kathryn L Bollich-ZieglerDepartment of Psychology, Seattle University.
Michelle BruniDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Riverside.
William R CalabreseDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University.
Christine ChiarelloDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Riverside.
Burcu DemirayDepartment of Psychology, University of Zurich.
Sona DimidjianDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder.
Karen L FingermanDepartment of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.
Maximilian HaasDepartment of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Geneva.ORCID 0000-0001-7237-9767
Deanna M KaplanDepartment of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University.
Yijung K KimDepartment of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.
Goran KnezevicDepartment of Psychology, University of Belgrade.
Ljiljana B LazarevicDepartment of Psychology, University of Belgrade.
Minxia LuoDepartment of Psychology, University of Zurich.
Alessandra MacbethDepartment of Psychology, Azusa Pacific University.
Joseph H MansonDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Jennifer S MascaroDepartment of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University.
Christina MetcalfDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Kyle S MinorSchool of Science, Indiana University Indianapolis.
Suzanne MoseleyDepartment of Psychology, University of Arizona.
Angelina J PolsinelliDepartment of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine.
Charles L RaisonDepartment of Psychiatry, University Wisconsin-Madison.
James K RillingDepartment of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University.
Megan L RobbinsDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Riverside.
David SbarraDepartment of Psychology, University of Arizona.
Richard B SlatcherDepartment of Psychology, University of Georgia.
Jessie SunDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis.
Mira VasilevaMelbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.
Simine VazireSchool of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.
Matthias R MehlDepartment of Psychology, University of Arizona.

Funding

Program Development and Pilot CoreP30AG066614 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI KAREN L FINGERMAN · 2020 to 2026
$5.2M
Scientific & Technical CoreP2CHD042849 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI MARK D. HAYWARD · 2017 to 2026
$5.2M
Mechanisms of MeditationR01AT004698 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI RAISON, CHARLES · 2009 to 2013
$3.1M
Social Networks and Well-being in Late Life: A Study of Daily MechanismsR01AG046460 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI FINGERMAN, KAREN L · 2015 to 2019
$2.5M
Sleep and Divorce: Identifying Bidirectional Vulnerability and ResilienceR01HD069498 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI SBARRA, DAVID A · 2011 to 2014
$1.3M
The Daily Interactions of Couples Coping With Breast Cancer: With Whom, About WhaR03CA137975 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI MEHL, MATTHIAS R. · 2009 to 2010
$147k
American Psychological FoundationCDC HHSJohn Templeton FoundationMind and LifeMinistry of Education, Science and Technological DevelopmentNCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT004698NCI NIH HHS R03 CA137975NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066614NIA NIH HHS R01 AG046460NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD042849NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD069498NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Women are widely assumed to be more talkative than men. Challenging this assumption, Mehl et al. (2007) provided empirical evidence that men and women do not differ significantly in their daily word use, speaking about 16,000 words per day (WPD) each. However, concerns were raised that their sample was too small to yield generalizable estimates and too age and context homogeneous to permit inferences beyond college students. This registered report replicated and extended the previous study of binary gender differences in daily word use to address these concerns. Across 2,197 participants (more than five-fold the original sample size), pooled over 22 samples (631,030 ambient audio recordings), men spoke on average 11,950 WPD and women 13,349 WPD, with very large individual differences (< 100 to > 120,000 WPD). The estimated gender difference (1,073 WPD;

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Sex CharacteristicsSpeechVerbal BehaviorAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPre-Registration PublicationSex FactorsYoung Adult

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PMID39804347
PMCPMC11825285

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