“More people than ever before are single — and that’s a good thing” is an article Bella DePaulo wrote for The Conversation on April 23, 2017. It immediately shot to the top of the list of “Most Read” articles and stayed there for days. It was republished by dozens of magazines and newspapers, in the…
“I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President Trump.” is Bella DePaulo’s op-ed, published in the Washington Post on December 8, 2017. (It is probably the most popular article she has ever written. It also attracted the most hate mail.)
On May 25, 2017, Bella DePaulo’s op-ed, “Get married, get healthy? Maybe not,” was published in the New York Times.
Bella DePaulo published this myth-busting article in the Atlantic, “Single People Aren’t to Blame for the Loneliness Epidemic.”
For the cover story of the March 2020 issue of the Atlantic magazine, David Brooks wrote about the nuclear family. As a follow-up, the magazine invited Bella DePaulo to discuss the many different ways we live now: If the nuclear family has failed, what comes next?
NBC News published Bella DePaulo’s article about how people who are single at heart have been doing well during the pandemic, contrary to all stereotypes: Singles are supposedly miserable and lonely. Actually, some of us are thriving.
Bella DePaulo was featured in this very popular article in the Atlantic, The hidden costs of living alone.
“Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life,” by Bella DePaulo, was published in the Journal of Family Theory & Review in 2023. Abstract
I Study Single People For A Living. ‘The Golden Bachelor’ Got This 1 Thing Totally Wrong. By Bella DePaulo