xviii, 653 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents
Contents: 1. Openness to Scientific Innovation -- 2. Birth Order and Scientific Revolutions -- 3. Birth Order and Personality -- 4. Family Niches -- 5. Developmental Glitches -- 6. Gender -- 7. Temperament -- 8. Exceptions to the Rule -- 9. Social Attitudes -- 10. The Darwinian Revolution as Social History -- 11. The Protestant Reformation -- 12. Political Trends -- 13. The French Revolution -- 14. Social and Intellectual Context -- 15. Conclusion -- App. 1. A Brief Introduction to Statistics (or Correlations Made Easy) -- App. 2. Coding Procedures for Variables in the Study -- App. 3. Criteria for Selection of Participants in Scientific Controversies -- App. 4. Expert Raters and Other Collaborators -- App. 5. Techniques for Estimating Missing Data -- App. 6. Data and Expert Ratings on Social Attitudes -- App. 7. Modeling the Protestant Reformation -- App. 8. Modeling the French Revolution -- App. 9. Miscellaneous Technical Discussions -- App. 10. Suggestions for Future Research
App. 11. How to Test Your Own Propensity to Rebel
Summary
Argues that siblings vary because they adopt different strategies in the universal quest for parent favour
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-616) and index
