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Birth Order and Personality: Is Sulloway's Treatment a Radical Rebellion or Is He Preserving the Status Quo?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

B. G. Rosenberg
B. G. Rosenberg*
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University of California—Berkeley, USA
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Frank Sulloway (1996) has stirred up great debate with his thesis that birth order explains and predicts people's proclivity to rebel. Scientists, scholars, business writers, and the broad reading and talk-television public alike all have weighed in to discuss the value and veridicality of Sulloway's thesis. Though many think he may be on to something, certain voices—Frederic Townsend's included—argue that his opus is simply bunk.

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , September 2000 , pp. 170 - 172
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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