London: It’s a research that is likely to leave men speechless - males, not females, are chatterboxes. International researchers have carried out as study and found that men out-talk women, dispelling the long-held myth that females cannot stop chattering.

“Men’re significantly more talkative than women. Gender differences in talkativeness may reflect a tendency among to control the conversational floor, when interacting with women,”the Daily mail reported, quoting lead researcher Campbell Leaper as saying.

In fact, the team came to conclusion after analyzing the result of three studies, involving 4,380 volunteer, into the way men and women use language.

The researchers found that men were more talkative in certain situations, such as when they talk to group of people, or to their wives and girlfriends, or strangers - their finding have been reported in ‘Personality and Social Psychology Review’ journal.

But women were found to chat more when talking to friends and children. Researchers found that when women talk to strangers they’re likely try to find common ground and interests while men focus on trying to influence the listener.

According to the team, the differences are cultural, not biological.