Turowetz-Hollander2012

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Turowetz-Hollander2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Turowetz-Hollander2012
Author(s) Jason Turowetz, Matthew M. Hollander
Title Assessing the experience of speed dating
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Tag(s) EMCA, Speed-dating, Acquaintanceship, assessments, conversation analysis, relationships, self-disclosure, shared naivete
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Year 2012
Language English
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 14
Number 5
Pages 635–658
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DOI 10.1177/1461445612454083
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Abstract

We use conversation analysis and a research design modeled on speed dating to examine college-aged speed daters’ assessments of their experience of this activity. In getting acquainted, participants solicit and provide accounts of the experience that treat it delicately and impersonally. Further, participants collaborate to claim a shared naivete toward speed dating, thereby presenting themselves as ordinary college students having a new experience. Non-standard assessment sequences throw such patterned practices into relief, and feature the disclosure of personal troubles occasioned by the experience. Our findings have implications for the study of assessments, impression management, acquaintanceship, and relationship initiation.

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