Is your personality fixed by inherited genes, or a product of your socialisation?

Answer 1

It is really a mix of both. Your genes carries the basic idenity of your personality but basiclly your sociaty carries out the way your personality will stay. The two form together to decide what kind of person you will be.

Answer 2

It is a combination of both. Socialization has great influence on your way of being and confronting different situations. It all depends on the way you develop, how your parents raised you, who guided you throughout life and most importantly HOW they guided you... Your genes help certain traits stand out more than others. When you are older, you might learn how to deal with and handle these traits, depending on how you were raised. Some you will be able to control, others you wont..These particular tendencies are the ones you inherit.

Answer 3

I have looked into this subject a lot and I do believe at this moment in time that biology has a massive effect on who you become. From what I have seen of how people grow, i would say the genes have the biggest influence although I used to believe the contrary.

Answer 4

What a question! One I have often asked myself. I have two sons, the first was adopted at birth, the second stayed with me. I'm pretty messed up from stuff that happened in my childhood and always thought that no 2 son's problems were a result of my problems and that fact that I brought him up. I have recently been re-united with son no1, he had a more priveledged upbringing than son 2, more money, more prestige, no mentally unstable mother. But talk to them both and compare the things they've done growing up and it's as if they grew up in the exact same environment and they didn't!! They didn't have the same influences, environment, or even fathers, but have done things in parallel as if they always lived together. A conundrum? I don't know but I've stopped blaming myself for no2 sons problems, eventually!!!!

Answer 5

Both. your personality is shaped by genes and also how you were raised. It's scary knowing how you raise your kids can affect their whole life. I mean if your parents lock you in a closet and give out harsh punishments for minor infractions the person is going to be messed up. I started out quite fiesty for a child(according to my aunt) but I became insecure and frightened child due to the way my parents treated me. I became quite timid and don't easily trust people. It has affected every aspect of my life and thanks to 5 years of therapy I am finally coming out of my shell. My parents weren't bad people, just being raised in the 50's people thought differently about how to raise a child.

Answer 6

Your socialisation generally matters more than genetics and biology in most cases, however if you have abnormal biology then that will obviously affect everything you experience and learn more than normal.

Answer 7

Ah the old Nature vs Nurture debate. I'm off to find a chicken/egg forum myself.

Answer 8

Both, as evaluated on a biopsychosocial (and sometimes experts throw in spiritual) model. Facors from eash of these areas all contribute to certain behaviors; as such, any one of these areas has potential for interventions.

Answer 9

Both of course, but I think socialisation is stronger.

Answer 10

its a mixture of both...u'll get some who claim that it is just ur genes...but if you look at their studies with twins for example u'll see that the concordance rate is 100% so there has got to b another cause...u'll then get people who claim its ur environment...but there are studies which prove this wrong...so i'd say it has to be a mixture of both