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Books I read in June 2022
On the hunt for something that can entertain or inform you? I’m sharing the books that I read last month, including an in-depth look into how our siblings shape us, a guilty pleasure from an old favourite, and a tirade from a very shouty man.
Jeffrey Kluger: The Sibling Effect
For all that richness and complexity, however, there may be no relationships that can run quite as deep or survive quite as long as those among siblings. You know it if you grew up with one. You know it if you’re raising some. You know it if you’ve merely watched a group of them interact.
Siblings are the most influential and yet most overlooked social relationship that any of us have. Often, they accompany us from the cradle to the grave. Yet, they are not typically part of scientific accounts of psychological development, as any reader of a textbook on this topic may have noticed. The Sibling Effect aims to rectify this by delving into the research that has yet to make it into the textbooks. The book touches on topics such as birth order effect, sibling conflict, and the evolution of sibling relationships across the lifespan. It answers questions like are firstborns born leaders, is…