Tannen

Different gender styles of comcation:

• Giving feedback
• Apologies ( Men often avoid apologies )
• getting credit (choice of pronoun) ( women give more credit to others than men)
• confidence and boasting (women are disadvantaged -> women are more likely to downsize their certainty and men are more likely to minimize their doubts.)
• asking questions (men are more hesitant to ask questions than women. They realize it puts them in a place of dependency. )
• Compliments (especially women)
• ritual opposition ( a ritual common among men that women often take literally)