1. Why do you think singles research focuses more on women than men?

2. At what age is it no longer acceptable to be single?

3. How does singleness fit into the relationship theories we've studied so far this year, such as evolutionary, attachment, interdependence, and self-expansion theories?

4. Blakemore, Lawton and Vartanian (2005) note that women feel that "others blame them when heterosexual relationships fail." Do you think it is true that the general public attributes relationship failures to women more than men?

5. Is singleness in college more or less acceptable than being in a relationship? How does this collegiate environment compare to the "real world"?

6. What about people who just like "the chase"? Do they fit the common characteristics of the single population even though they are often also single themselves?

7. Could any of these studies on singleness be replicated in the lab?

8. Do you think the fact that the population used in the Thiesen and Cooley study was from an evangelical church affects the results they found and their external validity?

9. In the Blakemore et al. (2005) paper, how do the measures used reflect attitudes about singleness?

10. In the O'Hagan et al.(2003) paper, which theory (evolutionary or sociocultural) actually explains the results they found?