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| Why It's Better to Be Single, According to Science
We knew it all along. Give Tinder a break and take yourself on a date tonight. Being single has a handful of benefits, scientific research has found. Alone time is one of them. Single people are more likely to not only embrace solitude, but benefit from it, recent studies have suggested. Bella DePaulo, a psychologist at the University of California Santa Barbara, advocates the single life and travels the nation to present these findings, which she says are too often dismissed by the larger psychology community. In a TEDx Talk she gave last spring, she called living single her "happily ever after." Studies suggest she's onto something. Single people tend to have stronger social networks In 2015, social scientists named Natalia Sarkisian and Naomi Gerstel set out to explore how ties to relatives, neighbours, and friends varied among single and married American adults. They found that singles were not only more likely to frequently reach out to their social networks, but also tended to