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Bella DePaulo

Academic Affiliate, UC Santa Barbara

Topics of expertise
  • Singles & Dating

Email: belladepaulo@gmail.com
Website: https://belladepaulo.com/
Twitter/X: @belladepaulo

Bella DePaulo (Ph.D., Harvard) is the author of Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life, as well as other books and more than 150 scholarly publications. She has been described by Atlantic magazine as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” Her TEDx talk, “What no one ever told you about people who are single,” has been viewed more than 1.7 million times. Professor DePaulo is an Academic Affiliate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara. She has always been single and always will be.

Last Updated: 9/9/25