While personality isn’t set in stone, your birth order can play a large influence, probably due in part to the shifting family dynamics as younger siblings appear (or not). Face it, the firstborn ...

Growing up as the eldest child often comes with extra responsibilities—which can shape the way you parent your own kids.

Birth order may play a bigger role in shaping who you are than you even realize. From the stereotypical elder, middle, and ...

Ever looked at your kids and thought, “How did they all come from the same womb?” Turns out, birth order might have something to do with it. Psychologists have long studied how your place in the ...

You can bet your paycheck that your firstborn and second-born children are going to be different, says Dr. Kevin Leman, a psychologist who has studied birth order since 1967 and wrote The Birth Order ...

The question of whether siblings' birth order shapes their personality has puzzled families and psychologists for years. But ...

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Every family has its own brand of chaos, but the roles we fall into as kids often stick with us far longer than we expect. Whether you grew up as the responsible eldest, the rebellious middle child, ...

The idea that birth-order position has a lasting impact on personality has been discussed for the past 100 years. Recent large-scale studies have indicated that birth-order effects on the Big Five ...