Living the better single life (SOP46)

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Married people are often considered to be happier and healthier, while single people are often stereotyped as being isolated, self-centered and unhappy. But what if these are myths? In this episode, psychologist Bella DePaulo, PhD, talks about the benefits of remaining unattached and calls on psychology to pay more attention to why certain single people do, in fact, thrive. APA is currently seeking proposals for APA 2020, click here to learn more https://convention.apa.org/proposals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.9	For generations, living happily ever after usually meant getting married.
0:49.2	If you found your perfect match and tied the knot, you would be happier, healthier, and less lonely.
0:55.6	Meanwhile, single people are often stereotyped as being isolated, self-centered, and unhappy.
1:02.2	In this episode, we speak with one psychologist who has dug deep into the research on singles and married couples and finds that everything you think you know about single people is probably wrong.
1:07.7	I'm Audrey Hamilton, and this is Speaking of Psychology.
1:22.5	Bella de Palo is a project scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
1:26.8	and has been described by Atlantic Magazine as America's foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.
1:33.5	She has written more than 100 academic publications, including many on the topic of single
1:37.6	life and is the author of the book Singled Out, How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized,
1:43.5	and Ignored, and still live happily ever after.
1:46.9	Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Mental Health.
1:52.3	Welcome, Dr. DePaolo.
1:53.4	Thank you so much for having me.
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