Birth order, family size, and sex differences in risk-taking and conformity behaviours
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Psychology
Degree name
Master of Arts
Publisher
University of Canterbury
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Language
English
Date
1967
Authors
Jamieson, Bruce David
Abstract
An experiment was undertaken which examined the effects of birth-order and family size on individual risk taking and conformity behaviours. Previous studies had suggested conformity behaviours, being dependency linked, exhibited ordinal effects. It was considered individual risk taking may prove to be another such dependency linked behavior.
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Birth order, Conformity, Risk
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