Men who talk about health live longer lives, and it’s not a coincidence. For decades, cultural norms have conditioned men to stay silent about their physical and emotional struggles. But recent ...

Mongolian proverb of the Day: A Mongolian proverb highlights three conversation levels: ideas, facts, and daily routines. It ...

I’m going to start with that much-maligned phrase of the 2010s before I take aim at male conversational skills: #notallmen. Not all men don’t know how to hold a proper conversation. Not all men spend ...

A recent survey found that men feel much more comfortable talking about their physical health than their mental health. This survey overlaps with other research indicating that men are much less ...

There are few people who are as unique in their communication styles as a quiet man. A man of few words tends to be the person who remains enigmatic, sometimes to the point of it being problematic. At ...

Re “Why are the men around me doing all the talking?” by Judy Kugel (Ideas, March 22): When I attended Emerson College in the ’70s, we read communications studies that showed that despite the ...