ARTICLE REVIEWED - THREE :
Hartshorne, J., 2010. How Birth Order Affects Your Personality. Scientific American Mind. [online] Available at: [Accessed 18 Feb. 2016].
Joshua Hartshorne, a developmental psychologist from Harvard, published his article ‘How Birth Order Affects Your Personality’ in 2010, to present the argument that birth order affects an individual’s intelligence and personality. Hartshorn conducted this study as a result of his own research into the connection between birth order and who individuals choose to be in relationships with, and aimed to discover if birth order effected people’s persona at all. His study gave a number of background sources of information to allow a complete understanding of where he was basing his …show more content…
However, the information seemed slightly irrelevant to Hartshorn’s aim of deterring the connection between birth order and personality. Hartshorne’s study concluded that first borns tend to associate more with other firstborns, second borns with other second borns, and so forth. He deduced that there must be a correlation between someone’s choice of spouse, which is usually based on similar personalities, and their order of birth. Furthermore, Hartshorne implied that if a spouse is chosen based on personality, and personality is affected by birth order, then the two should be closely related. The Norwegian case seemed to be the only conclusive findings Hartshorn has chosen to incorporate into his own review, apart from his own. Being a Harvard psychology student, Hartshorne had the resources and capability to concisely present this topic, however, this particular type of psychology is not his usual forte, emphasising the lack of the article’s conclusiveness and relative scientific inadequacy. For such a complex and relatively theoretical study, this article did not provide enough statical information and data for the case to fully comprehended and agreed …show more content…
They based this study on an experiment known as the ‘Lost Letter Technique,’ and its purpose was to survey and assess the public’s viewpoints and inclination towards political groups and other organisations. From the year in which it was completed, the political orientation of many living in the United States (where the study was conducted), was relatively sensitive, and this could be contributed to the Vietnam War that was waging in the 60s and the upheaval of social rights and declaration of freedom of
Hartshorne, J., 2010. How Birth Order Affects Your Personality. Scientific American Mind. [online] Available at: [Accessed 18 Feb. 2016].
Joshua Hartshorne, a developmental psychologist from Harvard, published his article ‘How Birth Order Affects Your Personality’ in 2010, to present the argument that birth order affects an individual’s intelligence and personality. Hartshorn conducted this study as a result of his own research into the connection between birth order and who individuals choose to be in relationships with, and aimed to discover if birth order effected people’s persona at all. His study gave a number of background sources of information to allow a complete understanding of where he was basing his …show more content…
However, the information seemed slightly irrelevant to Hartshorn’s aim of deterring the connection between birth order and personality. Hartshorne’s study concluded that first borns tend to associate more with other firstborns, second borns with other second borns, and so forth. He deduced that there must be a correlation between someone’s choice of spouse, which is usually based on similar personalities, and their order of birth. Furthermore, Hartshorne implied that if a spouse is chosen based on personality, and personality is affected by birth order, then the two should be closely related. The Norwegian case seemed to be the only conclusive findings Hartshorn has chosen to incorporate into his own review, apart from his own. Being a Harvard psychology student, Hartshorne had the resources and capability to concisely present this topic, however, this particular type of psychology is not his usual forte, emphasising the lack of the article’s conclusiveness and relative scientific inadequacy. For such a complex and relatively theoretical study, this article did not provide enough statical information and data for the case to fully comprehended and agreed …show more content…
They based this study on an experiment known as the ‘Lost Letter Technique,’ and its purpose was to survey and assess the public’s viewpoints and inclination towards political groups and other organisations. From the year in which it was completed, the political orientation of many living in the United States (where the study was conducted), was relatively sensitive, and this could be contributed to the Vietnam War that was waging in the 60s and the upheaval of social rights and declaration of freedom of