The New Science of Living Alone: Here’s a Lot of What We Know
Now that solo living is becoming increasingly popular around the world, we know much more about it than we did before. Below is what I have written on the topic…
What’s Great About Solitude: Here’s What We Know
Psychology journals are overflowing with articles about loneliness, and have been for decades. Recently, scholars are starting to study solitude, in the sense of the positive aspects of being alone….
Single Parents and their Children: Don’t Believe the Prophecies of Doom
In Singled Out, I devoted a chapter to debunking the myth that the children of single parents are doomed. I described various studies and showed how the results are exaggerated…
Psychological Inquiry, Double Issue on Singles — Copies Available
In 2005, Wendy Morris and I were invited to write the target article, “Singles in society and in science,” for the journal Psychological Inquiry. This was my very first publication…
Korean Version of Singled Out!
Yes, you read that correctly. The title of this post says that the cover you see is from the Korean translation of Singled Out (link to the English version is…
Consciousness-Raising about Singlism: Taiwan Edition
This past Sunday, the first day of National Singles Week 2012, was such a fun day for me. A journalist from Taiwan who had read the Chinese translation of Singled…
What I’m Up to These Days
In January 2010, I wrote a post for my Living Single blog called Not going nuclear: So many ways to live and love. In it, I wondered about a fundamental…
Single in the Navy, Part 2: Guest Post by Roger Morris
[Bella’s intro: If you have not yet read Part 1 from guest blogger and Navy veteran Roger Morris, you can find it here. Now, on to Part 2 and the…
Single in the Navy, Part 1: Guest Post by Roger Morris
[Bella’s intro: Recently, a retired Navy veteran, Roger Morris, wrote to say that while he believed there was some singlism in the Navy, he also thought there were advantages to…