Bella DePaulo

Bella DePaulo (Ph.D.) is a social psychologist and the author of Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After (St. Martin's Press) and How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century (Atria) and a TEDx talk called "What no one ever told you about people who are single." Atlantic magazine described Dr. DePaulo as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, such as the James McKeen Cattell Award and the Research Scientist Development Award and has written for publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, CNN, Time magazine, New York magazine, the Guardian, Forbes, Quartz, Nautilus, the Conversation, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Bella DePaulo has discussed the place of singles in society on NPR and CNN, and her work has been described in newspapers (such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal) and magazines (such as the New Yorker, New York magazine, Atlantic magazine, the Economist, Marie Claire, AARP magazine, Time magazine, and many others). She is an Academic Affiliate in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UCSB.