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.

How We Live Now:
Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century

Bella DePaulo New Book How We Live Now

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A Korean translation is available. Contact Bella DePaulo.

 

 

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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Marriage vs. Single Life:
How Science and the Media Got It So Wrong

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The Science of Marriage:
What We Know That Just Isn’t So


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[This book includes just one key chapter from Marriage vs. Single Life plus an introduction.]

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E-book is here.

Single Parents and Their Children:

The Good News No One Ever Tells You

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E-book is here.

Italian translation is here

Spanish translation is here

Single, No Children: Who Is Your Family?

cover, Single, No Children

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Portuguese translation is here

Spanish translation is here

Italian translation is here

ALONE:
The Badass Psychology of People Who Like Being Alone

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E-book is here.

Behind the Door of Deceit:
Understanding the Biggest Liars in Our Lives

Behind the Door of Deceit: Understanding the Biggest Liars in Our Lives

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Portuguese translation here
Spanish translation here

Italian translation here

The Lies We Tell and the Clues We Miss: Professional Papers

The Lies We Tell and the Clues We Miss: Professional Papers

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The How and Whys of Lies

The How and Whys of Lies

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Portuguese translation here
Spanish translation here 

Italian translation here

Is Anyone Really Good at Detecting Lies? Professional Papers

Is Anyone Really Good at Detecting Lies? Professional Papers

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When the Truth Hurts: Lying to Be Kind.

Is Anyone Really Good at Detecting Lies? Professional Papers

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Portuguese translation here

Spanish translation here

Friendsight:
What Friends Know that Others Don’t

Professional Papers

Friendsight: What Friends Know that Others Don't

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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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The Psychology of Lying and Detecting Lies

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E-book is here

Big-Time Liars and the People Who Enable Them

E-book here.

 

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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In The Dark Side of Close Relationships II
William R. Cupach and Brian H. Spitzberg (Eds.)

“Living single: Lightening up those dark, dopey myths,” chapter by Bella DePaulo

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For just this chapter in a more affordable collection with 40 more DePaulo articles, click here.

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 Social Psychology of Good and Evil.
Arthur G. Miller (Ed.)

“The many faces of lies,” chapter by Bella M. DePaulo

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Feeling Hurt in Close Relationships (Anita L. Vangelisti, Ed.)

“When the truth hurts: Deception in the name of kindness,” chapter by Bella M. DePaulo, Wendy L. Morris, & R. Weylin Sternglanz

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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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