On Getting Married and (Not) Getting Happier: What We Know
Claims that if only you get married, you will get happier, are ubiquitous. They are also wrong. There are embarrassing methodological flaws that sully many of the studies used as…
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…
Where Are the Single People in the Handbook of Social Psychology?
In the 1990s, when I decided to go beyond just collecting clippings and observations about single life, and look into the state of the published research, I consulted the definitive…
Tasty Myth-Busting from the New “Going Solo” Book
Solo dwellers, we have our book! Eric Klinenberg’s book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, will be published tomorrow. My advanced copy is already dog-eared….
Bogus Claim that Marrieds Win: Can You Help Explain the Cheater Technique?
I need your help. I’ve been trying for years to explain what’s wrong with the cheater technique. That’s the one where researchers compare all single people (whether they want to…
‘But He’s So Nice!’ Practitioners of Singlism Have their Defenders
“He’s all puppies and rainbows.” “She’s so so nice!” “He’s a reasonable person.” It is getting to be a pattern. When someone is called out for practicing singlism, someone else…
SINGLISM Is Published!
“All Things Single” readers, I’m blogging to you first. My new book, Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matterse, and How to Stop It – written together with 28 other…
10 Myths about Singles Featured Today at Huffington Post
A post I wrote about the top 10 myths about single people has been featured since this morning at the top of the Living page at the Huffington Post. There…