I value psychological studies and strategies that not only offer insights and understanding but also tip the scales toward social justice. I’m particularly interested in justice for single people, who are systematically disadvantaged in laws, policies, the workplace, the marketplace, the healthcare system, and just about every other major domain of life.
In pursuit of this goal of psychologically informed advocacy, I have conducted research documenting ways in which single people are stereotyped and stigmatized. My colleagues and I have also found evidence of housing discrimination against single people. That seemed like an important first step—showing that singlism (the stereotyping, stigmatizing, and marginalizing of single people, and discrimination against them)........