The Nurture Assumption
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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do is a 1998 book by the psychologist Judith Rich Harris. Originally published 1998 by the Free Press, which published a revised edition in 2
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Birth order
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Birth order refers to the order a child is born in their family; firstborn and second-born are examples. Birth order is often believed to have a profound and lasting effect on psychological developmen
The Nurture Assumption
…noise may be involved instead of possible systematic imports e.g. from parenting styles. More specifically, Harris also argues against the effects of birth order. She states: Birth order effects are like those things that you think you see out of the corner of your eye but that disappear when you look at them…
The Marx Brothers in birth order, oldest at top
Three siblings from the 1890s