The Myth of Birth Order

By | October 21st, 2015|Categories: Psychology|Tags: , , |0 Comments

A fascinating article in The Huffington Post debunks the myth, so dearly held by so many, that birth order impacts personality.  Two recent large-scale, international studies (here and here) found no relationship between birth order and five primary personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism). In fact, the only known effect that birth order [...]