Discussion:
Birth Order as a Construct
1. Create a report on the usefulness of birth order as a construct. Utilize the birth order resources, or other experts in this area:
Johnson, G. R. (2000). Science, Sulloway, and Birth Order: An Ordeal and an Assessment. Politics & The Life Sciences, 19(2), 211-245.
Rodgers, J. (2000). The Birth Order Trap. Politics & The Life Sciences, 19(2), 167-170.
Russell, C. (1997). Birth order and the baby boom. American Demographics, 19(3), 10.
Percy A., R., Klaus, A., Marina, B., Ada, L., Iver, M., Angeles, S., & Frank J., S. (2003). Perceived parental favoritism, closeness to kin, and the rebel of the family. The effects of birth order and sex. Evolution And Human Behavior, 24261-276. doi:10.1016/S1090-5138(03)00033-3
BIRTH ORDER. (2003). In International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family.
Birth Order. (2004). In The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science.
Marini, V. A., & Kurtz, J. E. (2011). Birth order differences in normal personality traits: Perspectives from within and outside the family. Personality & Individual Differences, 51(8), 910-914. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.019