Geoff MacDonald

People can want romantic relationships because they enjoy them or because they feel pressured into them. Our new paper uses Self-Determination Theory to measure motivations for relationships, organize the literature on relationship desire, and predict who starts a relationship.

What are single people's romantic goals, and are they related to why they want singlehood? A new Substack about a new paper by Ph.D. student Laura Hawkins: unromanticprof.substack.com/p/goal-diggers

I wrote about @elaine_hoan's new paper on trajectories of well-being in singlehood. unromanticprof.substack.com/p/the-eras-of-…

Singlehood studies has assumed that people's evaluations of single people are inaccurate, but research is increasingly suggesting those evaluations are at least partly correct. Where do we go from here? unromanticprof.substack.com/p/beyond-belie…

Some classic MacLab work.