Can You Handle the Truth?
In my role as a scholar who has studied deception for decades, I am often asked why people lie. Sometimes there is a more personal and poignant question behind that…
UK Couples Want Better Treatment of Singles
Readers have been alerting me to the new UK study that calculated the extra money it costs to live solo compared to living as a couple. I’ll get to that…
Oh, No, They Didn’t! Unsolicited Advice and Product-Promotions for Singles
[This is cross-posted from Living Single, with an added note at the end, thanks to a great reader comment.] [More evidence that your blogger is technologically-challenged: I don’t know why…
Do Relationships Need Lies to Survive?
[To introduce new readers to the kinds of singles topics I like to address, I posted the Top 20 Posts from My Living Single Blog that I write for Psychology…
Is the Socially Isolated American a Myth? So Many Important Responses
Recently at Psychology Today, I asked, “Are Americans becoming more and more isolated?” So many thoughtful comments were posted there and emailed to me that I thought I’d rewrite the…
Inventing Friendship: Guest Post by Claude Fischer
Bella’s Introduction: Thanks to the work of the eminent sociologist, Professor Claude S. Fischer, I’ve known for a while that the 2006 media panic – about how Americans are supposedly…
Subscribe RSS Now Working Plus Comments Post Automatically
Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Subscribe RSS now seems to be working fine. (Let me know if you have trouble with that or anything else.)…
Comment Posted on the Fatherhood Channel [UPDATED]
[UPDATE: This post was previously titled, “Fatherhood Channel Suppressed This Comment.” I have since heard from someone at the site, and he has posted a comment here, and also posted…
Time to Rewrite the Rules of Old Maid
It’s still selling! I’m talking about that card game, Old Maid, in which EVERYONE wins except the person who is stuck with the Old Maid card. Natalya sent me this…