Psychological study on dating exemplifies the effectiveness of language mirroring in establishing rapport

Chyndonax · 2012-04-30T15:05:08+00:00

Specifically, what Pennabaker found was that when the language style of two people matched, when they used pronouns, prepositions, articles and so forth in similar ways at similar rates, they were much more likely to end up on a date.

This is not because similar people are attracted to each other, Pennebaker says; people can be very different. It's that when we are around people that we have a genuine interest in, our language subtly shifts.

People who are attracted to each other use more function words like pronouns. Great for predicting and but not useful for active seduction.

aleifur · 2012-04-30T15:32:38+00:00

Shit just got scientific up in here. :)

Title	Psychological study on dating exemplifies the effectiveness of language mirroring in establishing rapport
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