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Personality and Birth Order

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Personality and Birth Order: First-Borns and Later-Borns

Does birth order have any effect on personality? The naysayers

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Authors are

consist of the

including psychologists Seff, Gecas, and Frey (1993) argued that

referred to by

author's name

last name

and the year of

throughout the

"research on birth order effects has been remarkably inconsistent and

publication.

paper.

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inconclusive with regard to various personality and behavioral

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print sources

outcomes" (Introduction section, ¶ 4). MIT historian Sulloway (1996)

and the

paragraph

Within the text,

number, or as in

capitalize the

disagreed. In his book, Born to Rebel, he offered proof of the

this case the

major words in

heading and

a title of a book

relationship between birth order and personality.

paragraph

or article.

number, for

electronic

Researching the lives of historical figures, Sulloway (1996)

sources.

observed that later-borns tend to champion liberal or unconventional

When introducing

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ideas while first-borns do not: "Later-borns were more likely than

sources, use the

when omitting

past tense or

original material.

present perfect

first-borns were to support each of the 61 liberal causes . . . surveyed,

tense (e.g., has

observed).

from the Protestant Reformation to the American civil-rights

Since this

electronic

movement" (as cited in Cowley, 1996). Rule-breaking later-borns

source has no

For a secondary

page,

source in which

include Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr.,

paragraph

one author is

numbers, or

being quoted or

headings, no

paraphrased in

and Charles Darwin. In contrast, first-borns defend the status quo

pagination is

another author's

given.

work, name the

(Sulloway, p. 79). Naturalist Louis Agassiz fits this mold. The most

original work, but

cite the secondary

influential naturalist of his day, first-born Agassiz staunchly opposed

source.

Since Sulloway was already

cited in this paragraph, no date

is needed. However, if

Sulloway is cited in a new

paragraph, the first in-text

citation should include the date.

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