When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, they usually talk simultaneously（同时的）about a variety of subjects, including children, men, careers and what' s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen -- they can’t do both -- and they don’t understand that women can. Besides, women consider that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships -- not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring at the screen.
During the ad breaks, a man often asks a woman to explain the plot and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women, to read the subtle body language signals that reveal how the characters are feeling emotionally. Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group, they developed the ability to communicate successfully in order to maintain relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to relate the facts.
Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a means of bonding. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.
There is no convincing evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girls' mothers talked to them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr Michael Lewis, author of Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to, and looked at, baby girls more often than baby boys. Scientific evidence shows parents respond the brain bias of their children. Since a girl’s brain is better organized to send and receive speech, we therefore talk to them more. Consequently, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually disappointed to receive only short grunts in reply.

当女人们坐一起看电影时，她们通常会同时谈论各种各样的主题，包括孩子，男人，事业以及正发生在她们的生活中的各种事情。当一群男女在一起看电影时，则通常以男人让女人闭嘴而告终。男人们不愿一边盯着屏幕一边高谈阔论，而且他们也弄不懂为啥女人们就乐此不疲。另外，女人们认为大家相聚是为了共同享受时光，发展关系还有联络彼此感情，这是和那些终日懒散在家以看电视消磨时间的男人们所想的完全不同的。

在插播广告的时间，男人常让女人为他解释电影的故事情节以及片中人物的关系进展情况。和女人不同，男人不易察觉那些揭示影片人物情感历程的微妙的肢体语言符号的变化。自从女人在圈子里度过了同其他女人小孩在一起的最初几天，她们就成功地练就了一种维持彼此关系的交际能力。对于女人而言，她们延续谈话内容有着这样一种明确的目的：为了建立相互关系以及交友。而对男人来说，交谈仅是为了叙述某个事实。

男人把电话看作一种向他人传递各种事实和信息的交流工具，而女人则把它视为联络感情的手段。女人能花上两星期同姐妹度假，并且在回家之后，她会同刚才的姐妹煲上另外两小时的电话粥。

现在没有令人信服的证据表明，之所以存在这种社交场合的条件反射（也就是说男女谈话的差异性)，之所以母亲们同女儿们谈论的更多，是由于女儿们比儿子们更健谈。《社会行为与语言获取》一书的作者、精神病学家迈克尔·路易斯博士进行试验并发现，同小男婴相比，母亲们更多地凝视小女婴并和她们说话。科学证据显示，这是由于父母对子女大脑偏差做出的反应。因为女性大脑在传递和接受语言方面被更好地组织，我们就同她们谈得多些。这样的结果就是，那些尽力想与儿子谈话的母亲们通常只会失望，因为儿子总是以敷衍来回应她们