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Stanley Schachter
American Sociological Review
Vol. 28, No. 5 (Oct., 1963), pp. 757-768
Published by: American Sociological Association
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2089913
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Abstract
Numerous studies have indicated that eminent scientists, scholars, and men of letters tend to be first-born or only children. Data are presented which indicate that this relationship is simply a reflection of the fact that scholars, eminent or not, derive from a college population in which first-borns are in marked surplus. Factors that might explain the heavy over-representation of first-borns in college populations are considered.
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