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Birth Order, Family Size and Extra‐Sensory Perception
Author(s) -
GREEN C. E.,
EASTMAN M. E.,
ADAMS S. T.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1966.tb00968.x
Subject(s) - birth order , perception , psychology , personality , order (exchange) , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , demography , population , finance , neuroscience , sociology , economics
Birth order and family size are two environmental variables that have a marked effect on the later personality (cf. Schachter, 1959). As the occurrence of extra‐sensory perception (ESP) seems influenced by various attitudinal and personality factors (cf. Schmeidler & McConnell, 1958), an investigation was undertaken to ascertain whether the manifestation of ESP ability (operationally defined as the attainment of extra‐chance scores on a test involving guessing the order of a concealed random sequence of symbols) might be related to birth order and also family size.