What factors lead you to believe that? What are some examples you can cite?
2007-01-20 04:10:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The popular belief about whether nature or nurture is the stronger influence changes as new evidence comes to light. Anyone who has studied the subject knows that even issues that appear to be determined strongly by heredity can have environmental influences tilt the balance. I believe this is true for character as well as physical traits. If you grow up in a household where dishonesty (stealing from your employer, picking pockets, cheating others in business, etc.) is part of your culture, then you might be more likely to find it acceptable. On the other hand, some people have an innate sense of morality and will rebel against such teaching and exposure. Is the rebellion nature or nurture? There's no way to know because we can't do a controlled experiment on that genotype.
And even in longitudinal studies of people from various cultures, there are so many variables that it is difficult to say what caused what.
So.... I say they both determine character.
2007-01-20 04:23:52 · answer #1 · answered by joanmazza 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nature Heredity
2016-12-11 15:25:32 · answer #2 · answered by elisias 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHARACTER IS THE BYPRODUCT OF BOTH AND BEYOND!
Yes, though the seed is the outcome of heredity, it grows stronger or perishes sooner by the kind of supply of the environment.
Some times, even the not-so-good seed also grows efficiently due to that nurturing, and the so-good seed perishes by the surrounding environment!
Einstein the father of science, was not taken that much care by his father it seems, but the environment was! That is why he could become that genius!
Here the environment for any human child is only the surrounding people. Though not by the own parents, if any child/ person is being taken care by any human being
LOVINGLY AND AFFECTIONATELY
that child/ person is invariably going to succeed in its/his Life!
2007-01-20 04:41:09 · answer #3 · answered by yozenbalki 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Character has to do with behavior patterns related to dealing with life. Patterns such as courage, patience, persistence, effort, honesty, integrity, compassion, etc. Behavior patterns are LEARNED (nurture, environment). Behavior has to do with your actions, your decisions in difficult decisions to do X instead of Y. Strong character comes from doing the hard things instead of taking the easy way out. We develop character strength throughout our life, we're certainly not born with it.
A totally separate issue is personality, which has to do not some much what we do but the general tendencies of how we do it. Do you tend to be more internally reflective or externally active? Do you tend to rely on rational thinking more than associative thinking? etc. Personality is heavily influenced by inherited brain structure, but equally by how you learn to use your brain - both nature and nurture.
2007-01-20 04:19:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its both. A persons character is based on what a person thinks and feels. The soul. Nature and Nurture cant be the only guage for individual integrity.
2007-01-20 04:17:40 · answer #5 · answered by lovehateleavestay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both...Nature in first stadium of life,it is something you have and have to learn how to live with...And then comes environment its there to either support you on your way to live by your nature or to make you change yourself...Its only a matter of your decision and nature if you are going to let them affect you...So i would say that nature has a little bit bigger part here
2007-01-20 04:19:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋