Discussion and References

Discussion
After researching the books, articles, and journals, I believe there is a strong difference in communication between men and women; that was also evident during the experiment and from the answers the respondents gave on the survey. A weakness in this study is that the couples may not act as they would when they are alone because they know that I am watching them. I also believe a weakness is by me studying only 5 couples; I am not getting an accurate picture because these 5 couples do not represent the greater whole. For future research, I suggest that more subjects are studied and possibly a greater number of respondents are used for the survey.

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