Abstract
Most research on social bond formation has argued that stsuitable persons and then within the remaining set the quclick / connect and form bonds while others do not. But wthat accomplished? This paper studies how different speecexcitement, and accommodation are used differently by mTo study dating conversations we collected original data decisions and interpersonal perceptions and audio recordiindicators of speech styles using lexical, dialog act, anand transcriptions of each date. Last, we use state of thCook 2006) to discern which speech styles are more or lesdate selection).