Birth Order, Sibling Competition, and Human Behavior

By F. J. Sulloway. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. (2003, background): “06 Tetlock et al. (1985) Opinions from 23 Supreme Court justices, USA Conservative voting record (economic issues) .48** 1.09 Tetlock et al. (1985) Opinions from 23 Supreme Court justices, USA (same sample) Conservative voting record and orientation .”
Perceived parental favoritism, closeness to kin, and the rebel of the family The effects of birth order and sex (2003, background): “…to make predictions for sibships of two, because reproductive value favors the elder and neediness favors the younger; but for larger sibships, the prediction is that middleborns will be least favored, as Sulloway (2001) has found in self-report data from a sample of more than 2000 subjects.”
Sibling competition and cooperation in mammals: challenges, developments and prospects (2007, background): “…in the role of sibling relations is growing in recognition of the fact that in the large families typical of many societies and presumably of our evolutionary past, contact among siblings is at least as intense as that between parents and their children (Sulloway 1996; 2001; Conley 2004).”
Birth order, conscientiousness, and openness to experience: Tests of the family-niche model of personality using a within-family methodology (2007, methodology): “Following Paulhus et al., (1999) and Sulloway (2001), we collected two withinfamily data sets by asking participants to rank-order themselves and their siblings with respect to certain M.D. Healey, B.J. Ellis / Evolution and Human Behavior 28 (2007) 55–5956”
Evolutionary Psychology and Family Business: A New Synthesis for Theory, Research, and Practice (2008, background): “Birth-order research suggests this follows an evolutionary strategy (Sulloway, 2001)—eldest children are motivated to succeed playing by the rules the parents have set, so as to extract maximum benefits from parents, while later-borns are more likely to rebel against this order, to overturn the…”
Scramble competition in newborn domestic rabbits for an unusually restricted milk supply (2005, background): “In recent years, interest in the nature, origins and possible life history consequences of sibling competition has grown considerably among behavioural ecologists and developmental psychologists (reviewed in Sulloway 1996, 2001; Mock & Parker 1997; Stockley & Parker 2002).”