Factors related to an individual's ability to perceive implications of dialogues

Short dialogues were devised, recorded, and validated to imply situations, motives, and emotions with little explicit content. Correlations were obtained between listeners’ abilities to perceive various kinds of implications and their psychological characteristics, educational aptitudes, sex, and other factors. The results indicate that college females are superior to college males in perceiving various kinds of implications, that this superiority occurs when at least one of the speakers is female, and that, at least for females, these abilities are closely related to a combination of certain psychological traits.