Do women get a natural "high" from gossip? Do women really speak over 30,000 words a day?

Answer 1

I dont, I just get a natural high from playing with you, B I G K N O B, its very hard to speak when you have something in your mouth.
Shall I call Alice to come play too?

Answer 2

I have a friend that I dated for a short period of time, that will call me from time to time to talk "AT" me. We email each other on a regular bases. My nickname for her is motormouth. I have met some women in my past that I thought could do some talking, but this gal takes the cake. When she calls, you might get in a couple of words and then "IT IS ON". I have actually sat and listened to her strain to the end of her breath and inhale quickly and keep right on talking, like she's scared someone might get a word in the middle of her sentence and break her stride. I sometimes don't even answer my phone when i see her number on it, because I don't want to sit and listen to her talk for 30 or 45 minutes. I have talked to her only once in about a year that she just stopped talking and I asked her what was wrong and she said nothing, "I'm through". I jokingly replied, Not you and she started laughing. I would say that she well exceeds 30,000 words a day with no problem.LOL Look at me. Now I'm the motormouth. LOL

Answer 3

I believe I may have gotten some sort of high. I've felt better about myself when I've heard terrible things about other people. I really can't say if that's a just a woman thing though it does seems like it. I'm sure I've spoken over 30,000 words in one day before but at this point it's closer to 50 since I'm currently not working and refusing to answer my phone. But, I guess I've just replaced it with typing thousands of words on Y!A!!!

Answer 4

No, women get a natural high from enjoying other women's pain and discomfort. The gossip is only a medium through which all the scandel, pain and misery is delivered.

They get an even higher natural high when they percieve themselves as superior to the poor women who are the victims of their nefarious gossip.

Answer 5

Oooooo we love a bit of gossip!! Think we probably speak more than 30,000 words a day!!

Answer 6

You only have to observe women prattling on. I don't even think they care whether or not the other person is listening. They have the ability to talk, but also to observe everything that is going on around them. Except when they are in the supermarket where they block the aisles through lack of self awareness and what is going on around them.

Answer 7

Yes!!!!!!!!! The 30,000 words a day had to have been before the cell phone was invented. More like 300,000 words a day now.

Answer 8

You must live in Houston and listen to 94.5 in the morning. According to that book they were discussing it's scientifically true. I do think we women get a high from talking. Once I start talking it's kinda hard to stop. My fiance just tunes me out though, that brings my high down. lol

Answer 9

Women talk almost three times as much as men, according to the research.

It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men.

In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man.

Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat - and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests.

The book - written by a female psychiatrist - says that inherent differences between the male and female brain explain why women are naturally more talkative than men.

In The Female Mind, Dr Luan Brizendine says women devote more brain cells to talking than men.

And, if that wasn't enough, the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high.

Dr Brizendine, a self-proclaimed feminist, says the differences can be traced back to the womb, where the sex hormone testosterone moulds the developing male brain.

The areas responsible for communication, emotion and memory are all pared back the unborn baby boy.

The result is that boys - and men - chat less than their female counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent.

"Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road," said Dr Brizendine, who runs a female "mood and hormone" clinic in San Francisco.

There are, however, advantages to being the strong, silent type. Dr Brizendine explains that testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing - allowing men to become "deaf" to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends.

But what the male brain may lack in converstation and emotion, they more than make up with in their ability to think about sex.

Dr Brizendine says the brain's "sex processor" - the areas responsible for sexual thoughts - is twice as big as in men than in women, perhaps explaining why men are stereotyped as having sex on the mind.

Or, to put it another way, men have an international airport for dealing with thoughts about sex, "where women have an airfield nearby that lands small and private planes".

Studies have shown that while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject tends to cross women's minds just once a day, the University of California psychiatrist says.

Dr Brizendine, whose book is based on her own clinical work and analyses of more than 1,000 scientific studies, added: "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.

"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."

Other scientists, however, are sceptical about the effects of testosterone on the brain and say many of the differences between the male and female personality can be explained by social conditioning, with a child's upbringing greatly influencing their character.

Deborah Cameron, an Oxford University linguistics professor with a special interest in language and gender, said the amount we talk is influenced by who we are with and what we are doing.

Answer 10

No, I don´t get a high from gossip and I don´t think most women do either