It’s a Pandemic and These Single People Have Been Doing Fine
Heard that all single people have been crushed by the pandemic? Don’t believe it. It seems like every major publication has featured some article pitying those single people whose lives…
The Views Expressed are Those of the Artist: Guest Post by Mark Fallon
[Bella’s intro: Mark Fallon is the distinguished co-author of a previous guest post here, the important and popular “State-Sponsored Bullshit.” He is back with another creative and thoughtful contribution. Fallon…
My Keynote Address for the Conference, Singles Studies: Global Perspectives
On Saturday October 10, 2020, I will be giving the keynote address for the online conference, Singles Studies: Global Perspectives. You can read more about it here. If it is…
Two Experts, Maria Hartwig and Mark Fallon, Expose the Dangers of State-Sponsored Bullshit
Bella’s intro: I can’t think of anyone whose scholarship on the psychology of deception I admire more than Professor Maria Hartwig’s. Mark Fallon is a former Special Agent and has…
Singles Studies: Global Perspectives, an Online Conference on October 10, 2020
UPDATE: The presentations will be published in a book edited by K. Chowkhani and C. Wynne (Eds.): Singular selves: An introduction to Singles Studies. Routledge. ORIGINAL POST: I am delighted to…
One of My Blogs Is Ending; Here Are the Others that Are Continuing
I was invited to blog at Psych Central in 2011 and I have been writing the “Single at Heart” blog there ever since. I recently learned that Psych Central has…
Gender Differences in Living Single, Marrying, Divorcing, Remarrying, Bereavement, and Living Arrangements
Is it a his and hers world when it comes to marrying, living single, living alone, or living apart from a romantic partner? What about initiating divorce or getting married…
The Benefits of Being Single – for Single People and for Society
What’s so great about being single? What does it mean for single people, for families, communities, and society that the number of single people has been growing and growing for…
Scholars of Single Life
When I published my first scholarly article about single people in 2005, “Singles in society and in science,” with Wendy Morris, there were hardly any other scholars who identified as…