Is personality nature or nurture?
growth, development, AND even their genes! There are many genetic markers that we inherit from the generations that come before us that predispose us to certain behaviors (and to certains diseases, both mental and physical). Your brain and nervous system, by which you react to stimuli, are composed of cells and each of these cells is “run” by a subset of the genes that are a part of the 46 chromosomes that are identical in each cell. We have 5 biological children – one of them is so much like my husband (in personality) that you my husband claims it is like looking in a time-warp mirror! That said, you can take an infant, and by the stimuli you give him/her, you can create a sociopath; look at all of the stories of parents/families (both biological and adoptive) who have wrecked their children by their incompetence! Finally – and this is the most interesting tidbit since it is supported by such cutting edge research…there have been studies done on identical twins (so they have the sa
