Single at Heart: What if You Don’t Need Someone Else to “Complete” You | Bella DePaulo, PhD | Bella DePaulo, PhD

Bella DePaulo, a social psychologist and the author of “Single at Heart,” challenges the deep assumption that single people are secretly miserable. Drawing on surveys of over 20,000 people across 100+ countries, she unpacks why happy singles are routinely not believed, how choice turns solitude into something nourishing, and what the pandemic revealed about singles’ resilience. The conversation overturns common myths about loneliness, support networks, and the hidden costs of couple-centric life.