Media Appearances and Mentions
[See also the list on the “How We Live Now” page]
TEDX talk
What no one ever told you about people who are single
By Bella DePaulo
March 25, 2017
Atlantic magazine (cover story)
What, me marry?
All the single ladies
By Kate Bolick
November 2011
The story describes Bella DePaulo as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.”
Atlantic magazine
If the nuclear family has failed, what comes next?
(This is an interview with Bella DePaulo about a cover story by David Brooks)
By Joe Pinsker
February 13, 2020
Atlantic magazine
What you lose when you gain a spouse
By Mandy Len Catron
July 2, 2019
Atlantic magazine
Singles and couples are more divided than ever
By Ginny Hogan
May 19, 2020
Atlantic magazine
The high price of being single in America
By Lisa Arnold and Christina Campbell
January 14, 2013
Atlantic magazine
Eight parents, one shower
By Alana Semuels
August 1, 2016
Atlantic magazine
The hot new millennial housing trend is a repeat of the Middle Ages
By Ilana E. Strauss
September 26, 2016
Atlantic magazine
The secret to happiness: Marriage and a short commute?
By Jake Simpson
March 30, 2010
Atlantic magazine
The idea of marriage is rapidly changing
By Erik Hayden
November 20, 2010
Atlantic magazine
The pursuit of happiness
The Daily Dish, by Andrew Sullivan
March 30, 2010
Ted Ideas Blog
The price of being single: One researcher’s quest to end discrimination against single people
By Jessica Gross
October 21, 2015
New York Times
On eating alone in Paris
By Stephanie Rosenbloom
May 30, 2018
New York Times
Families
By Natalie Angier
November 25, 2013
New York Times
Zeroing in on the female traveler
By Stephanie Rosenbloom
July 31, 2014
New York Times
Singled Out (for the Single Supplement)
By Stephanie Rosenbloom
March 8, 2013
New York Times
A Confederacy of Bachelors
By Hilary Howard
August 3, 2012
New York Times
What the Single Ladies Have Wanted for More Than a Century
By Anna North
April 24, 2015
New York Times
The appeal of alone time for the over 50 crowd
By Vicki Larson
July 6, 2015
New York Times
One singular sensation
By Gail Collins
December 4, 2008
New York Times
In a married world, singles struggle for attention
By Tara Parker-Pope
September 19, 2011
New York Times
The marrying kind: Born or made?
By Pamela Paul
January 14, 2011
New York Times
Line up, children, single file
By Alyson Krueger
January 30, 2015
New York Times
What are friends for? A longer life
By Tara Parker-Pope
April 21, 2009
New York Times
Rendell on Napolitano’s ‘no life’
By Sarah Wheaton
December 4, 2008
New York Times
A guide to embracing life as a single.
By Andrew Adam Newman
December 31, 2007
New York Times
Just say no to the dating industry.
By Kate Zernike
November 30, 2003
New York Times
Bob, meet Jane. And give me the details.
By Warren St. John
December 22, 2002
New York Times
There’s community and consensus. But it’s no commune.
By Tom Verde
January 20, 2018
Associated Press
Always single, happy that way
By Leanne Italie
May 26, 2010
The Wall Street Journal
Single life and the coronavirus
By Ray A. Smith
April 5, 2020
The art of being single
By Elizabeth Bernstein
March 19, 2019
Why marriage won’t cut your medical bills
By Elizabeth O’Brien
February 13, 2014
Janet Napolitano and the persistence of ‘singlism’
By Sue Shellenbarger
December 5, 2008
USA Today
Many singles looking for love, but not marriage
By Sharon Jayson
Febuary 1, 2012
USA Today
Free as a bird and loving it.
By Sharon Jayson
April 12, 2007
Washington Post Magazine (cover story)
The single life
By Ellen McCarthy
Febuary 12, 2012
Boston Magazine (cover story)
Single by choice
By Janelle Nanos
January, 2012
Christian Science Monitor (cover story)
Singles nation: Why so many Americans are unmarried
By Stephanie Hanes
June 14, 2015
Boston Globe
Marriage equality is great. Now how about equality for singles?
By James Lopata
May 14, 2015
Women without men (are doing just fine, thank you)
By Alysia Abbott
March 8, 2017
Washington Post
Singles say they’re better prepared to self-quarantine
By Joan DelFattore
April 11, 2020
Washington Post
Developers, tenants move past awe of single living.
By Denise Kersten
February 1, 2003
Washington Post
Why more and more people are making plans to dine out alone
By Becky Krystal
October 27, 2015
Irish Times
‘I’m 63 and I’ve been single my whole life’
By Tanya Sweeney
August 29, 2017
The Times of London Magazine
The rise of the alpha single
By Hattie Crisell
March 17, 2018
The Globe and Mail
People living alone during COVID-19 adapt to life with limited in-person interaction
By Zosia Bielski
January 1, 2021
New Jersey Star-Ledger
Protecting the rights of single people
Editorial page
Interview by Julie O’Connor
October 12, 2011
Columbia News Service
Alone no more, singles fight for their rights.
By Liz Kim
December 12, 2006
The McClatchy Company
The politics of parking an adult at the kids’ table
By Emilie Le Beau
November 18, 2006
Los Angeles Times
Unattached, thank you, and loving it.
By Martin Miller
September 2, 2004
Would Peggy Olson make it in 2013’s workplace?
By Alexandra Le Tellier
June 25, 2013
Singles, unite! Mag targets the affluent
By Alana Semuels
December 29, 2008
Chicago Tribune
Marriage? Let me think about it.
By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
August 16, 2011
5 things we learned from Singled Out.
By Anne E. Stein
December 30, 2007
New York Post
‘Friends’ in real life: why young couples move into their buddies’ buildings
By Zachary Kussin
March 18, 2017
Reuters
Stay single to avoid somebody else’s money mess
By Chris Taylor
February 1, 2017
The Star
The worst question you can ask your single friends
By Sofi Papamarko
March 6, 2017
ABC Good Morning America
Kamala Harris’ late-in-love story an example of changing trend
By Katie Kindelan
February 12, 2021
MSNBC
(Story on singles and longevity)
By Joan Raymond
August 18, 2011
Critique:
Watch out, singles! Once again, you are doomed to early grave by cheater technique
Yahoo
The younger women at the highest risk for health problems later in life
By Amy Capetta
May 19, 2015
New York Magazine
Marriage equality is a win for single people, too
By Rebecca Traister
June 26, 2015
The new science of single people
By Jesse Singal
August 16, 2016
There’s a word for the assumption that everybody should be in a relationship
By Drake Baer
March 8, 2017
Andrew Cuomo’s new promise to women: Infertility protection
By Rebecca Traister
April 19, 2017
What if marriage is overrated?
By Jesse Singal
May 12, 2017
Married people used to be healthier — but not anymore
By Olivia Campbell
July 21, 2017
Cosmopolitan
Just one? A girl’s guide to going solo
By Jen Doll
July, 2013
Please stop shaming me for being single
By Julie Vadnal
November 28, 2015
Are Breakups Contagious?
By Julia Pugachevsky
March 19, 2018
Huffington Post
If you feel bad about being single, it’s not because you’re single
By Rebecca Adams
May 1, 2014
Why so many of us want to be single after 50
By Xenia Taliotis
January 16, 2015
9 things single women want their married friends to understand
By Ann Brenoff
August 27, 2015
Research says single people – wait for it – live rich, meaningful lives
(Shared on Facebook more than 50,000 times)
By Catherine Pearson
August 5, 2016
Slate
The children of gay parents, like all kids, need more than their parents can provide
By John Culhane
September 28, 2016
Upworthy
A psychologist reveals the benefits of being single that we’ve all accidentally ignored
By James Gaines
August 5, 2016
Fusion
Meet the people who want to be single forever
By Lauren Feinstein
September 17, 2016
Daily Beast
Singled Out: Are unmarried people discriminated against?
By Maura Kelly
February 6, 2012
Newsweek
Single and loving it, even during the holidays
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
December 23, 2009
Daily Beast/Newsweek
Where have all the babies gone?
By Joel Kotkin and Harry Siegel
February 19, 2013
Time
How to Stay Married
By Belinda Luscombe
June 2, 2016
Time
Are Gay Relationships Different?
By John Cloud
January 28, 2008
Time
Americans still love marriage. But why?
By John Cloud
February 19, 2007
The Economist
Singletons
By Sally Davies
August 25-31, 2012
The Nation
I never felt like a ‘single’ parent. Then the coronavirus hit
By Dani McClain
April 8, 2020
The Diana/Whore Complex
By Lakshmi Chaudhry
August 27, 2007
The Week
‘Singlism’: Do only married people have lives?
December 19, 2008
Work: A bias in office flexibility
June 26, 2013
Marie Claire
The single girl’s second shift
By Ayana Byrd
June 18, 2013
Psychology Today
Salud to singletons
By Carlin Flora
November/December 2008
Lone stars.
By Jillian Straus
May/June 2006
Prevention
Fifty shades of 50
By Lisa DePaulo
November, 2012
Healthy Orbit
Single people earn less money
By John Hopton
November 2, 2015
Are some people just born to be single?
By John Hopton
November 3, 2015
AARP Magazine
The secret lives of single women.
By Sarah Mahoney
May & June 2006
AARP Bulletin
Sharing home sweet home
By Sally Abrahms
June 2013
AARP Blog
Why millennials return to the nest? They like living with parents
By Mary W. Quigley
November 16, 2015
Realtor Magazine
Bella DePaulo: Singles really want…
By Wendy Cole
January / February 2013
Refinery29
Why are millennials so obsessed with their nieces and nephews?
By Cory Stieg
April 10, 2018
Business Week
Unmarried America.(cover story)
By Michelle Conlin
October 20, 2003
U. S. News & World Report
50 ways to improve your life.
By Linda Kuhlman
December 27, 2004
Do childless employees get the shaft at work?
By Aaron Guerrero
July 17, 2013
Medical Daily
Single and proud on Valentine’s Day: Futurist predictions say single is the new black
By Susan Scutti
February 14, 2014
Business Insider
5 scientifically proven reasons it’s better to be single
By Lauren F. Friedman
February 14, 2014
Glamour
Are single renters discriminated against?
By Rosemary Brennan
October 21, 2010
Elle
The new literature of female adulthood will maybe make you happier about getting older
By Marisa Meltzer
March 8, 2017
Chronicle of Higher Education
Singular mistreatment: Unmarried professors are outsiders in the Ozzie and Harriet world of academe.
By Robin Wilson
April 23, 2004
RADIO and PODCASTS
Air America Radio
The Ron Reagan Show
December 5, 2008
CBC Radio
Single
Piya Chattopadhyay, “Out in the Open”
November 12, 2017
Don’t pity the single ladies
Piya Chattopadhyay, “The Current”
June 7, 2019
CBC Radio
The New Single
Josey Vogel, “Between You and Me”
July 22, 2008
The Pat Morrison Show. KPCC 89.3, NPR in Southern CA
“The decline of marriage.” Discussion with Bella DePaulo and Maggie Gallagher.
September 14, 2007
The Joy Cardin Show. Wisconsin Public Radio
The case for staying single.
February 16, 2016
NPR Columbus, Ohio
Spinsters: 21st century renegades
June 12, 2013
NPR Tell Me More with Michel Martin
Is single life something to lament or celebrate?
February 15, 2012
NPR Justice Talking
September 11, 2006
NPR On Point
August 26, 2005
December 8, 2003
NPR Talk of the Nation
Single Women Take the Lead in America
January 18, 2007
NPR Boston
Seeking Singledom
July 29, 2011
Singled Out: The cultural bias against single people
By Amy Gutman
January 26, 2015
“To the Point,” KCRW
Living alone in America
Judy Muller, guest host
August 30, 2013
NPR 1A
The economy of single women
February 14, 2017
NPR “Academic Minute”
Single
(Best Sociology Segment Award for 2017)
July 5, 2017
Your Atheist Pastor
Flying solo with Dr. Bella DePaulo
Interviewed by Luke King (see #39, 203)
August 27, 2017
BBC Podcast
You’re doing it wrong.
March 27, 2018
American Psychological Association (podcast)
Speaking of Psychology: Living the better single life
Audrey Hamilton, Host
Recorded August 6, 2016; posted March 31, 2017
Solo: The Single Person’s Guide to a Remarkable Life (podcast)
The Science of Single Living
Peter McGraw, Host
January 2, 2020
The Psych Central Podcast
Single and Thriving
Gabe Howard, Host
October 6, 2020
A Single Serving (podcast)
Single Really Suits Me
Shani Silver, Host
January 6, 2020
TV and VIDEO
CBS This Morning
Ways it pays to be married, how singles pay more
By Carmen Wong Ulrich
February 14, 2012
CBS Chicago
Are unmarrieds ‘Singled Out’ for discrimination?
By Mike Parker
December 4, 2008
CNN Saturday Night
September 16, 2006
CNN American Morning
Secret prejudice against single people
By John Roberts
December 5, 2008
Video Jug (brief videos)
What are common misperceptions about single people?
What are common misperceptions about single women?
What are common misconceptions about single men?
What are common misperceptions of single parents?
Are married people happier than single people?
Are married people healthier than single people?
Do single people have shorter lives?
How does the media affect people’s perceptions of being single?
NEW YORK TIMES Video
Opinion page
Conversation about discrimination against singles
July 29, 2008
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