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Lejarraga, Tomás Schnitzlein, Daniel Dahmann, Sarah C. Hertwig, Ralph |
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Birth-Order Effects on Risk Taking Are Limited to the Family Environment Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences published online (20 November 2023). Also: https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15085 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences Keyword(s): Birth Order; Family Dynamics; Family Environment; Family Studies; Personality; Personality Prediction; Psychological Effects; Risk-Taking; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Why is the empirical evidence for birth-order effects on human psychology so inconsistent? In contrast to the influential view that competitive dynamics among siblings permanently shape a person's personality, we find evidence that these effects are limited to the family environment. We tested this context-specific learning hypothesis in the domain of risk taking, using two large survey datasets from Germany (SOEP, n = 19,994) and the United States (NLSCYA, n = 29,627) to examine birth-order effects on risk-taking propensity across a wide age range. Specification-curve analyses of a sample of 49,621 observations showed that birth-order effects are prevalent in children aged 10–13 years, but that they decline with age and disappear by middle adulthood. The methodological approach shows the effect is robust. We thus replicate and extend previous work in which we showed no birth-order effects on adult risk taking. We conclude that family dynamics cause birth-order effects on risk taking but that these effects fade as siblings transition out of the home. |
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Lejarraga, Tomás, Daniel Schnitzlein, Sarah C. Dahmann and Ralph Hertwig. "Birth-Order Effects on Risk Taking Are Limited to the Family Environment." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences published online (20 November 2023).
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