Birth Order

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Abstract

By influencing the strategies that siblings develop in competition for parental favor, birth order fosters differences in personality that in turn correlate with differences in creative achievement. The nature of the relationship between birth order and creativity has long been controversial owing to the failure of researchers to specify exactly what kinds of creativity they have in mind. Firstborns and laterborns do not appear to differ in overall levels of creativity, but they do differ in the ways by which they attain creative distinction.

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Change History: September 2016. FJ Sulloway updated text, sections, Figure 1, and the section on “Further Reading”.

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