The study by BYU School of Family Life professor Alex Jensen found that younger siblings generally receive more favorable ...

the research analyzed data from over 700,000 adults to assess whether personality trait levels could be linked to birth order and sibling number, according to The Independent. The study found that ...

Birth order refers to the order a child is born in relation to their siblings, such as whether they are first-born, middle-born, or last-born. You’ve probably heard people joke about how the ...

Siblings share a unique bond built from shared memories, family rituals and the occasional argument. But ask almost anyone with a brother or sister and you'll likely find a longstanding debate: who's ...

Study reveals parents tend to favor younger siblings, daughters, and the more agreeable — often without realizing it. BYU's ...

A new study finds that middle kids and kids from larger families are more agreeable, honest and humble than younger and older ...

To conduct the study, Jensen and his colleagues examined data from more than 19,000 individuals ... The present study ...

If you’re the middle child in your family, science might be on your side. A new study published in the journal PNAS suggests that middle siblings are not only agreeable but also more humble and honest ...

They also found that birth order does have a small effect ... evidence of much larger effects in larger data samples. Example of 5 key personality types shown with smoking variation as example ...

Favoritism can impact mental health and family relationships, often influencing which child is seen as the favorite child.

The new work involved analyzing data from 710,797 people who ... Ashton et al, Personality differences between birth order categories and across sibship sizes, Proceedings of the National Academy ...