From prior work it was predicted that greater creativity would be found for later than for firstborns, and the opposite would hold for scholastic achievement. On a sample of college women, with control over family size and in completed families, the predictions of creativity were supported significantly for the two-sibling family, but for the three-sibling family a non-significant trend suggested creativity might increase from first to second-borns but decrease from second- to third-borns. For scholastic achievement the results for the two-and three-sibling families were in accord with prediction but were not significant.
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