Our research shows that men and women differ in their use of communicative abstraction, with men using more abstract communication than women. Because people rely on communicative abstraction as a heuristic cue for power and status, women’s tendency to use less abstract communication may...

It has been widely recognized that bacteria do not live in isolation but exist in the form of communities and carry out intercellular signaling. This type of communication termed as quorum sensing, is a function of cell density. Despite few similarities, gram positive and gram negative bacteria...