Birth order, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. Tests of the family-niche model of personality using a within-family methodology

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-59

  Healey, Matthew D ^a   Ellis, Bruce J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth order; Conscientiousness; Openness to experience; Personality; Siblings; Within family research design

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845241018     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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