Research ____ psychologists at the University of Arizona ____ shown that the stereotype that women talk more ____ men may not be true. In the study, hundreds of university students were fitted ____ recorders and the total number of words they used during the day was then counted. The results, published in the New Scientist, showed that women speak about 16,000 words a day and men speak only slightly ____. ____, the four ____ talkative people in the study were all men. Professor Mehl, who was ____ charge of the research, said that he and his colleagues had expected to find that women were more talkative. Women ____ experts at gossiping - and they often ____ about trivial things, or at least that ____ what men have always ____. However according to research ____ by Professor Boynton, a psychologist at University College London, when women talk to women their conversations are not trivial at all, and ____ many more topics (up to 40) than when men talk to other men. Women's conversations ____ from health to their houses, from politics to fashion, from films to family, from education to relationship problems. Almost everything, in fact, ____ football. Men ____ to talk about ____ subjects, the most popular being ____ work, sport, jokes, cars, and women.

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