Books
Books by Bella DePaulo
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Singled Out:
How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After
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E-book version here.
Korean translation is available here.
Chinese translation is here.
Spanish translation is here.
Japanese translation: Part I and Part II
The Best of Single Life
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Amazon here.
E-book here.
Portuguese translation is here.
Spanish translation is here.
Italian translation is here.
Single with Attitude:
Not Your Typical Take on Health and Happiness, Love and Money, Marriage and Friendship.
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Singlism:
What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It
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The Science of Marriage:
What We Know That Just Isn’t So
[This book includes just one key chapter from Marriage vs. Single Life plus an introduction.]
Paperback is here.
E-book is here.
Single Parents and Their Children:
The Good News No One Ever Tells You
Paperback is here.
E-book is here.
Italian translation is here
Spanish translation is here
Single, No Children: Who Is Your Family?
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Order e-book here.
Portuguese translation is here
Spanish translation is here
Italian translation is here
The Psychology of Dexter
Bella DePaulo (Ed.)
“For the love of Dexter” and
“Deception: It’s what Dexter does
best (well, second best),” chapters by Bella DePaulo
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In Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Diane Mapes (Ed.)
“Single all the way,” chapter by Bella DePaulo
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I Didn’t Work This Hard Just to Get Married: Successful Black Women Speak Out
Nika C. Beamon
Foreward by Bella DePaulo
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In The Bedford Reader (10th Ed.)
X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron (Eds.)
“The myth of doomed kids” and “Bella DePaulo on writing,” chapters by Bella DePaulo
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The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts
Par Anders Granhag and Leif A. Stromwall (Eds.)
“Discerning lies from truths: behavioral cues to
deception and the indirect pathway of intuition,”
chapter by Bella M. DePaulo and Wendy L. Morris
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For just this chapter and one other, click here.
The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication, 2nd edition (Anita L. Vangelisti, Ed.)
“Single, no children: Who is your family?,” chapter by Bella DePaulo
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In House and Psychology
L. L. Martin and T. Cascio (Eds.)
“Everyone lies,” chapter by Bella DePaulo
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The Handbook of Solitude
Robert J. Coplan and Julie C. Bowker (Eds.)
“Single in a society preoccupied with couples,” chapter by Bella DePaulo
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Positive Psychology: Established and Emerging Issues
Dana S. Dunn (Ed.)

“Toward a positive psychology of single life.” Chapter by Bella DePaulo.
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