Birth order and the dominance aspect of extraversion: Are firstborns more extraverted, in the sense of being dominant, than laterborns?

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 742-745

  Pollet, Thomas V ^a   Dijkstra, Pieternel ^a   Barelds, Dick P H ^a   Buunk, Abraham P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birth order; Born to rebel; Dominance; Extraversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449310431     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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