Reported topics of conversation among same‐sex adults

Haas, Adelaide; Sherman, Mark A.

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“…Again, this is consistent with Hass and Sherman's (1982) findings on what students talk about, and other findings of women's greater likelihood to discuss personal and family issues (e.g. Aries and Johnson 1983).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…For both genders, pictures of friends of the other gender were rated as more likely to be sent to same gender friends, although the effect was significant only for male senders. Again it is important to consider motivations, and Hass and Sherman's (1982) finding that the most common topic of conversation among college students is the opposite gender is relevant here. The motivation for this same gender exchange of images of opposite gender friends could be to show off or to invite evaluation of the appearance of the person in the image.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Communication Using Camera Phones Among Young Men and Women: Who Sends What to Whom?

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This study examined whether the gender of the sender and recipient would influence camera phone usage. 180 college and university students from the Midlands and North of England provided information on communication with friends and family, and on personal importance of image uses. A sub-sample of 130 provided further data on likelihood of sending different kinds of image and the content of recent images sent and received. Many gender similarities were found, together with evidence of the use of images to support heterosexual relationships. However, the results showed greater use of images of significant individuals by the women than among their male counterparts, among all-female dyads and to communicate with female recipients. Overall the results suggest that women use images more than men for relationship maintenance.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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“…Information in conversational encounters can, and has been, conceptualized and analyzed in many ways. However, content schemes have generally been categorical in nature, focusing on such features as topics (for example, see Crow, 1983;Haas & Sherman, 1982;Planalp & Tracy, 1980) or facts/opinions/values (Berger, 1973;.…”

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Anticipation of Future Interaction and Information Exchange in Initial Interaction

Kellermann

1986

Human Comm Res

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Information exchange in initial interactions was examined across varying expectations for future contact with the conversational partner. Thirteen dimensions of information were employed to track conversational content over time, tap individuals' desires, and obtain overall impressions of the information exchanged. The anticipation of future interaction had minimal efiects on the actuality of and desire for information exchange, with its strongest efiects concerning perceptual variables of conversational coordination. The importance of anticipation ofjuture interaction to uncertainty reduction theory was found to be misplaced and the theory itself was brought into question by thefindings. The importance of the construct of anticipation ofjuture interaction was questioned in terms of the relationship of its operationalization to its conceptualization.

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“…Because women are socialized to place a relatively high premium on interdepend-cncc, communication and affect typically lie at the core of the way they define and evaluate intimacy. Compared to men, women rate positive affective behavior as more important to their relationships (Wills, Weiss, & Patterson, 19741, and they view talk as a more central and necessary component of their associations with others (Haas & Sherman, 1982;Johnson & Aries, Alternatively, men, who have been socialized to value independcnce and compctition, tend to organize their intimate relationships around shared activities (Caldwell & Peplau, 1982). Men rate positive instrumental behaviors as more important to their romantic relationships than do women (Wills et al, 1974).…”

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Gender differences in standards for romantic relationships

Vangelisti

Daly

1997

Personal Relationships

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Why is it that women often report more problems in their romantic relationships than do men? One explanation apparent in the literature is that women may view different standards as important for relationships than do their male counterparts and, as a consequence, women may be less likely to have their standards met. A second explanation is that while women and men may not differ in terms of the importance they associate with various standards, the experiences they have in their romantic relationships may lead women Lo believe their standards are not fulfilled as often as do men. The current study offers a preliminary test of these two rival explanations and found greater support for the latter. Analyses of two composite measures and more detailed factor‐based measures generally indicated that the standards held by women and men involved in heterosexual romantic relationships were rated similar in importance. Women, however, tended to note that their standards were met less fully than did men. Further, compared to men, women reported a greater discrepancy between the importance they associated with various standards and the extent to which the standards were fulfilled in the context of their relationship. The ability of two different theoretical models to predict and explain these findings is discussed, as re the implications of the results for future research.

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Reported topics of conversation among same‐sex adults

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Communication Using Camera Phones Among Young Men and Women: Who Sends What to Whom?

Communication Using Camera Phones Among Young Men and Women: Who Sends What to Whom?

Anticipation of Future Interaction and Information Exchange in Initial Interaction

Gender differences in standards for romantic relationships

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