For years, the scientific community and general public have been fascinated with figuring out whether there are legitimate effects based on a person’s position among siblings (or lack thereof, only ...

Birth order doesn’t just determine when family photos are arranged. According to developmental psychologists, your position in the family constellation significantly influences personality development ...

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You hear it all the time. I'm the oldest. I'm the youngest. I'm the middle child. Does birth order really matter? I was the "baby" of my family. No matter my age or accomplishments, my mother and ...

When it comes to dating, you might look for a certain type of look or personality for your potential future partner. Maybe you steer clear of an Aries partner and try to look for someone who checks ...

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Traditional matchmakers determined the romantic unions of the past. Tinder’s algorithm plays a part in countless couplings in the present. But now there may be another way to choose a partner. It’s ...

Birth order goes in and out of style in academic psychology, but is a perennial favorite in popular psychology. Time Magazine recently featured a cover story about the general implications of birth ...

In a recent article in the Law & Society Review, Birth Order, Preferences, and Norms on the U.S. Supreme Court, Kevin McGuire assesses the influence of childhood birth order on the Justices’ later ...

Conventional wisdom — and a lot of research — has suggested that birth order makes an indelible mark on our personalities, with firstborns thought to be more ambitious, the youngest children more ...

Forget the labels you assign to yourself or your children based on your or their position in a sibling hierarchy. Personality traits we have long applied to firstborn, middle, or youngest children ...