differences in communication. Now research has shown that there are actually very few

differences in the way men and women talk. In the public consciousness there's this idea

that there are huge differences between what men say and what women say and how men communicate

and how women communicate. And it's actually been shown that both men and both woman can

be aggressive or loving, nurturing or patient or impatient in their communication. What

the real difference is between the genders is what they hear. When the other is talking.

Women are much more likely to be sensitive to hidden messages or read between the lines

about social implications. Men are much more likely to read between the lines about status

implications. And this comes from their differences in society. So if you have this difficult

conversation at home, where the woman says or where the man says, wow, I'm so tired,

I don't know how I'm going to get all my work done and the woman says, oh I know, it just

sometimes seems like there aren't enough hours in the day. And the man says, there you go

again, criticizing how much I get done. In this situation the woman was sensitive to

the social implications to what the man said and she was trying to communicate a message

about how she sympathizes and emphasizes about all the work that he has to do whereas what

the man heard was a confirmation of you're not getting enough done. So it is in these

situation that it's important to remember that we might hear different things or we

might be more sensitive to different messages and what the other person says.