London, Nov 29: It’s a common belief that women talk more than men, and now the suspicions have been confirmed by a new research that has found that not only do the fairer sex tend to chit-chat more, but that they actually talk three times as much as their male counterparts.
Dr Luan Brizendine, the author of the book ‘The Female Mind’, revealed that women devote more brain cells to talking than men, and says that there are inherent differences between the male and female brain that explain the reason why women naturally tend to be more talkative.
In fact, according to Dr Brizendine, a University of California psychiatrist, women tend to talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 words more than the average man.
And it seems that talking really is like a drug for women, for the process triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give the ladies a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high.
Dr Brizendine says that the reason why women tend to talk up a storm can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the developing male brain, and pares the areas of the brain responsible for communication, emotion and memory.
As a result, boys - and men – tend to talk less, and also struggle to express their emotions.
"Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," the Daily Mail quoted Dr Brizendine, who runs a female "mood and hormone" clinic in San Francisco.
"There is no unisex brain. Girls arrive already wired as girls, and boys arrive already wired as boys. Their brains are different by the time they're born, and their brains are what drive their impulses, values and their very reality," she says.
"I know it is not politically correct to say this but I've been torn for years between my politics and what science is telling us. I believe women actually perceive the world differently from men. If women attend to those differences they can make better decisions about how to manage their lives," she adds.
When it comes to sex however, the tables are turned, for Dr Brizendine says that brain's "sex processor" - the areas responsible for sexual thoughts - is twice as big as in men than in women.
Perhaps that’s the reason why men tend to think about sex every 52 seconds, while women do so only once a day.
Dr Brizendine’s book is based on her own clinical work and analyses of more than 1,000 scientific studies.
Bureau Report with ANI inputs