Why Siblings Turn Out So Different & Why Talking to Strangers Helps

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You can spend $5 on a bottle of wine—or $5,000. But is one really that much better than the other? Or could something else be shaping what you taste in that glass? Researchers have taken a closer look—and what they found is surprising. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0706929105 Sibling relationships are some of the longest and most influential connections we have—yet they can be loving, distant, competitive, or even nonexistent. Why do siblings raised in the same home often grow up to be so different? Does birth order really shape personality? And what causes some siblings to drift apart over time while others stay close? Catherine Carr, author of Who’s the Favorite?: The Loving,…