How You Pick Romantic Partners Could Be A Matter Of Tiny Words, University of Texas Study

The smallish words that tie our sentences together, sometimes called “filler words” or even “junk words,” consist of articles, pronouns, and prepositions, including the, this, I, though, and, there, that. After examining these words and how they are used, Dr. James Pennebaker of the University of Texas discovered the way people use filler words may predict how well they will get along with a stranger or even reveal whether they are telling a lie. "These are the words that we don't pay attention to, and they're the ones that are so interesting," Pennebaker told NPR.

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