You are dining out at a restaurant and the person seated at the table directly behind you is having a conversation while you are trying to converse with your spouse. You find it difficult to pay attention to your "other half" because the person at the other table just keeps talking and talking. Are you male or female? In a revealing segment, ABC News 20/20 answers this and other questions about how men and women listen differently, and provides specific tools to help men, women and all types of listeners gain a better understanding of how to more effectively communicate with others. 13 minutes

 

 

 

The Brain Game: What's Sex Got to Do with It? 

For generations, we’ve debated whether the “gender gap” we experience in the ways men and women work, relate, communicate, problem-solve and create is a result of cultural influences or genetic makeup. Watch as Dr. Nancy Snyderman goes deep into the brain—and this debate—investigating what scientists have discovered about gender differences, culture, and the ways our brains work. Dr. Snyderman dismantles the myths and captures the truths by showing how our gender differences—our strengths and weaknesses—play out in real-life situations, in focus-group experiments and in actual brain images. Join Dr. Snyderman and a group of working men and women as they play THE BRAIN GAME to discover the different strengths men and women bring to communication, relationships and problem-solving. 41 minutes with segment breaks.