• Question: Is your personality influenced by your DNA, and your parents, in terms of genes? (if this makes sense)

    Asked by gnome to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 16 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by samuel1998.
    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I think it is. But not entirely. Some personality traits are inherited but others are a result of your upbringing. You might copy certain characteristics from your parents.

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Yes, it is very difficult to determine the effect of genes vs nurture. I think nurture can overcome genes in most cases.

    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      I think your parents may influence your personality as we copy them when we are young. My friend in shy and she has shy children, another friend is very loud and she has very confident children.

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