Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

As if spending 50 hours a week in a soulless, cubicle-divided, fluorescent-lit room with a bunch of people you can't stand wasn't bad enough,  psychologists are now analyzing your relationships with your co-workers based on—seriously—your birth order and family experiences. According to New York psychologist/consultant Benjamin Dattner: "Firstborns tend to be fearful of losing their position and rank, so they may be extremely anxious at a time of layoffs and downsizing. Second-born children tend to be most adventurous and open to change." And psychologists tend to be very effective at devising spurious hypotheses that enable them to charge companies lots of money for wisdom as useful as that provided by fortune cookies.