title: Telling stories: gender differences in peers' emotion talk and communication style.
abstract: Eighty girls and 64 boys (M= 6 years; 8 months, SD= .65) narrated a wordless picture book in mixed- or same-gender dyads. In mixed-gender as well as same-gender dyads, girls used more emotion explanations than did boys. Combined across dyad type, girls used more emotion labels than did boys. Girls used a higher proportion of collaborative speech acts than did boys in same-gender dyads, but girls and boys used the same amount in mixed-gender dyads. Whereas girls used a higher proportion of informing acts in mixed-gender dyads than did boys, boys used more than did girls in same-gender dyads. The findings support contextual models of gender and suggest that speaker as well as partner gender influence emotion expression and conversational style.
authors.affiliation: Kingston University, UK. h.tenenbaum@kingston.ac.uk
authors.forename: Harriet R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Tenenbaum
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: Betul
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alkhedairy
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012737:Sex Factors; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*