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My daughter has been singled out as the “bad friend”

Published: May 5, 2015 | By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

It can be heartbreaking when your child is singled out as the bad friend.

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Just Friends?

Published: September 1, 2008 | Last Updated: August 3, 2021 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

In a recent post on her Psychology Today blog, research psychologist Dr. Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out, raises the issue of what it means to be “just friends.” Unlike marriage (and same-sex unions in some States), friends have no legal ties to one another. Unlike siblings, they have no blood ties. Yet one of […]

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Singled Out (Part 2 of 2): Friendship Among Singles

Published: January 31, 2008 | Last Updated: September 25, 2020 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading

This is the second part of my interview with social psychologist Bella DePaulo, PhD, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. Do single women have more or less problems making and maintaining friendships? Explain. From a scientific perspective, the answer is unknown. That’s something that […]

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Singled Out (Part I of 2): Friendship among singles

Published: January 31, 2008 | Last Updated: January 31, 2008 By | Reply Continue Reading

Earlier today, I was very pleased to interview Dr. Bella DePaulo about friendship and the single woman. Dr. DePaulo is a social psychologist living in Summerland, CA., and the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After. She blogs for the Huffington Post, and has published […]

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