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Women More Expressive Than Men When Texting

by Peter Mychalcewycz on February 11, 2009 at 06:18 PM

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It turns out all those cliches about women being more expressive than men are true...kind of.

Researchers at Indiana University studied 1,164 text messages posted on Italy's interactive television music channel Allmusic and found the texts sent from women were more expressive than those of their male counterparts. This came as a surprise, since research shows that, in social situations, men usually talk more and are more expressive in their language while women tend to be more polite and talk less.

It seems these traditional gender roles reverse when modern technologies come in to play, though. Women who texted in to Allmusic utilized non-standard language (abbreviations, emoticons, etc.) more often than men and wrote longer text messages, many of them maxing out their 160-character limit, to express their feelings.

Perhaps next time you want to know what your wife/girlfriend/friend is thinking, you should send her a text. We hate to oversimplify personal matters, but you can't argue with science. [From: Physorg]

Tags: gender, sexes, studies, text-messaging, texting, trends, women, women vs men, WomenVsMen

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