Birth Order Does Not Affect Ability to Detect Kin

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 assessing kinship from facial cues alone in strang...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Fasolt, Iris J. Holzleitner, Anthony J. Lee, Kieran J. O'Shea, Lisa M. DeBruine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2019-08-01
Series:Collabra: Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.collabra.org/articles/235