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Empirical research has revealed a variety of differences in the communication behavior of males and females. This study addresses whether males and females think differently about communication. Imagined interactions are cognitive representations of interactive behavior in which the actor experiences the self to be engaged in communication with another. Results of a study reveal that females have more frequent and pleasant imagined interactions, they imagine more self-words, and they are more likely to imagine and recall the scene of imagined interactions than males.
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Edwards, R., Honeycutt, J.M. & Zagacki, K.S. Sex differences in imagined interactions. Sex Roles 21, 263–272 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00289906
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