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Facial Expression
Men Women
They tend to cock their head to the side and look at the other person from an angle when listening They tend to look at the other person directly facing them with their head and eyes facing forward when listening
They provide fewer facial expressions in feedback and fewer reactions They provide more facial expressions and more reactions
They tend to display frowning and squinting when listening They display smiling and head-nodding when listening
They stare more in negative interaction They lower their eyes more to avert gaze in negative interaction


Excerpted from the book
He Says, She Says: Closing the Communication Gap Between the Sexes
by Dr. Lillian Glass. Putnam, 1992.


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