Exam 8: Language, Communication, and Emotion

What did Nowak (2003) discover regarding people's ability to predict whether interaction partners were male or female based on written text alone?

Biologically speaking, girls and boys tend to display differences in temperament early in infancy, with boys showing higher ______ and girls showing higher ______.

During interactions girls and women tend to touch more and report greater comfort with being touched.

Schwarz and colleagues (2013) created word clouds to represent male and female communication based on 700 million words, phrases, and topics sample from social media. According to the word clouds, which of the following words were men more likely to say?

Openly expressing emotions is more or less acceptable across different cultures because they have different ______.

Which of the following is NOT true of sex differences in eye contact?

Samar and Alibakshi (2007) found that, in a sample of Iranian men and women, individuals with more ______ raised more topics (a sign of dominance) in mixed sex conversations.

Research on display rules reveals that women face social penalties for expressing sadness and men face penalties for expressing anger.

Stout and Dasgupta (2011) found that use of generic masculine language in interviews can have what effect?

Beginning to cry after seeing a stranger crying upon the death of her dog is an example of ______.

In conversation, males are more likely to use ______ interruptions and females more likely to use ______ interruptions.

Which of the following is an example of code switching?

Moshe Koppel and colleagues (2002) created a computer program to test whether men and women use language differently. To what extent could the computer program accurately identify whether something was written by man or woman?

Which of the following conditions produces the largest sex differences in empathic accuracy?

Nations that have gendered languages also have lower levels of ______.

Which of the following is NOT true of sex differences in self-disclosure?

The "different cultures approach" would predict that, upon close examination, gender differences in communication style will be small and trivial.

Tanya Vacharkilksemsuk and colleagues (2016) found that ______ body postures helped both men and women seem more attractive during speed dating

Henley (1995) found Black women in the United States tend to use more ______ language than White women.

What makes the question, "Who is more emotional - women or men?" complicated and difficult to answer? Explain two different ways of interpreting this question, then provide an answer for whether men or women are more emotional according to both interpretations. Support you answer with research findings.