Bella DePaulo

I’m Bella DePaulo. I’m proud to say that I’ve always been single and I always will be. • “Single at heart” is my term for people who love being single – single life is our most meaningful, fulfilling, authentic, and psychologically rich life. My latest book, “Single at Heart,” is all about that. • The Atlantic magazine described me as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” • My TEDx talk, “What no one ever told you about people who are single,” has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. • My 1st book about singles was Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After (St. Martin’s) • I’m a social psychologist, a Harvard PhD with more than 150 scholarly publications. My 2023 article, "Single and flourishing: Transcending the deficit narratives of single life," was published in an academic journal but I wrote it in an engaging and jargon-free way so you don’t have to be an academic to enjoy it. • I have bylines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York magazine, the Atlantic, Time magazine, the Guardian, the Chronicle of Higher Education, NBC, CNN, and many more. • My work on single people has been described in many publications in the US and around the world, including, for example, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, New York magazine, Time magazine, the Atlantic, the Economist, the Week, the Nation, Business Week, AARP Magazine, Newsweek, and the TED Ideas Blog. • I have been writing the “Living Single” blog for Psychology Today since 2008. • I have been on NPR many times, as well as many other podcasts and radio shows. • In 2022, I discussed single people with Maria Shriver on the Today show. You can learn more about me at my website, www.BellaDePaulo.com.