Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin
(2019)
Journal Article
Fasolt, V., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., O’Shea, K. J., & Debruine, L. M. (2019). Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.235
Previous studies suggest that birth order affects kinship detection ability. Kaminski et al. (2010) argued that firstborns use contextual cues (e.g., maternal perinatal association) to assess kinship in their own family, leading to a disadvantage in... Read More about Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin.