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Articles that may be used as reference http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ruled-by-birth-order/ https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-230765520/the-early-bird-gets-the-worm-birth-order-effects http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00705/full — Preceding http://www.parents.com/baby/development/social/birth-order-and-personality/ http://www.healthofchildren.com/B/Birth-Order.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-gail-gross/how-birth-order-affects-personality_b_4494385.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/personality-traits-linked-to-birth-order/ unsigned comment added by Arianarodfiol (talk • contribs) 00:38, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Information for Article -It was been proven that the firstborn is regularly treated with more care as well as attention by the parents. This behavior causes the first born child to develop certain characters and have other effects than the children afterwards. In order to prove this, experiments were conducted and studied showed both a persons personality and IQ comes in relation to when they were born into their family. Although there have been many research studies on this topic, for many years there were no questions about whether the first child was different from the other ones. In recent studies there is significant information to prove that characteristics and behaviors are developed in those who were firstborn. Josha K. Hartshorne ( Ph.D. student at Harvard University) released his discovery stating how the people you surround your self with is associated with the order you were born in. "Firstborns are more likely to associate with firstborns, middle-borns with middle-borns, last-borns with last-borns, and only children with only children." (Hartshorne 2010). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arianarodfiol (talk • contribs) 04:30, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update, March 31, 2016

Although this page is interesting, I think that it needs more sociological research rather than research from psychology or from online sources like Psychology Today. You need to actually go into the academic literature and cite articles from peer-reviewed journals. Why haven't you done that up to now? I have made that very clear throughout our course. You have a lot of work to do on this page if you decide to keep it going.

Also: you do not need the "read more" part of the page. That is not part of the style of Wikipedia. You should, instead, have useful citations that link the reader to the sources of the materials you are talking about.

Lots of work to do on this page! Get to it! @Arianarodfiol: Alfgarciamora (talk) 18:00, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk: Firstborn

The tricky thing about this wikipedia article is the fact that a lot of the information seems to come from certain studies. I understand that there is a lot of information coming from a few sources, but I do believe that the article was under cited for the type of information it was presenting. The information that is present is relevant to the topic and helps the reader get a better understanding. My only suggestion, as mentioned before, would to be to take out the "read more:" sections and just put information from those websites into the actual article.

Tomietamura (talk) 07:39, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural aspects

The article seems to be mostly focused on the psychology of firstborns and birth order, but I think the article can be improved upon by expanding it with cultural aspects, historic and modern (how they were viewed and valued by family and community; responsibilities and burdens expected of them by family and community; exceptions given in certain situations [war, deaths in the family, etc], and so on). This is the reason I came to the article, so I don't really have anything to contribute myself. — al-Shimoni (talk) 04:51, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]