男人比女人更虛幻更八卦

It might leave the man in your life lost for words – if, that is, you can stop him talking long enough to tell him. Contrary to popular belief, men talk more than women, research has found. But when women do speak, it’s worth listening – because they use more varied and thoughtful language than men. All talk? Men talk more than women - but when women do the talking its worth listening
　　有一個俗語“三個女人一條街”，形容女性“愛八卦、愛嘮叨”的天性，這種似乎被“官方一致認可”的理由近日竟然遭到來自曼徹斯特大學的心理學家Geoffrey Beattie的駁斥，這位心理學家經過研究後得出結論：男人比女人還愛聊天，愛八卦！但是，男人講的話一般都無關痛癢，不會像女人一樣富有生動性、活靈活現，男人講的東西比較無趣些，相反，女人講的話，更值得去“傾聽”！

Psychologist Geoffrey Beattie, from Manchester University, reviewed 56 studies into male and female communication and discovered that 24 concluded men used more words per day – while only two pointed to women being the more talkative sex. For example, when paying compliments, the men tended to rely on bland and therefore more predictable words, such as ‘nice’ and ‘good’. A typical male compliment might be: ‘You look really nice today.’ A woman, however, would be more likely to say: ‘I really love your jacket. Where did you buy it?’Overall, the men’s words could be guessed 81 per cent of the time, compared with 71 per cent for the women.

來自曼徹斯特大學的心理學家Geoffrey Beattie在經過針對56名男性以及女性的調查後發現，男性平均每日能夠“使用更多的詞彙”來進行談話和聊天，有專家在研究後發現，男女在表揚別人的方面區別十分明顯。當需要讚美別人的時候，男人更傾向使用“虛幻、概括性”的詞彙：比如“還不錯”、“很好”等等，一個典型的男人夸人的方法就是：“你今天看起來十分不錯！”但是究竟不錯在什麼方面呢？男人就不給出具體定義了。至於女人嘛，比較傾向使用“具體”“生動”的詞彙，比如：“我真的真的好喜歡你的夾克，在哪買的能告訴我麼？”科學家在經過實驗後發現，在男性談話中，81%的談話內容可以被預料到，而女性只有71%的談話內容能被猜中。

The only time the sexes were verbal equals was when talking about current affairs, the research for insurance company Sheilas’ Wheels found. Professor Beattie said: ‘It is men who are more likely to talk for the sake of talking when engaged in social chitchat by recycling their words with ritualistic and redundant language that doesn’t contain new informati‘Female “nattering” is little more than a cultural myth.’

經研究，男人和女人只有在討論自己的感情狀態時，他們的談話時間纔是相互平衡，並且差不多的。男人更多是因爲談話而談話、聊天而聊天，在談論社會大事的時候，更多喜歡使用比較“墨守陳規”“固有儀式”的語言，沒什麼新意，而女人在聊天的時候聊什麼內容、聊到什麼深度始終作爲一個“談話文化藝術”而受到重視與值得研究。