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Peer reviewedMichalski, Richard L.; Shackelford, Todd K. – American Psychologist, 2001
Critiques recent research on the effects of birth order on intelligence and personality, which found that the between-family design revealed that birth order negatively related to intelligence, while the within-family design revealed that birth order was unrelated to intelligence. Suggests that it may not be intelligence that co-varies with birth…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Family Environment, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Quotient
