Birth order and face-to-face contact with a sibling: Firstborns have more contact than laterborns

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1796-1806

  Pollet, Thomas V ^a   Nettle, Daniel ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth order; Contact frequency; Family ties; Kin selection; Siblings

Indexed keywords

EID: 34648819687     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.05.021     Document Type: Article

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