Does nurture effect personality or the persons choice is what makes there personality?

Answer 1

Regardless of what your personality traits are you always have a choice as how you present them to the world. In other words you might have an impatient personality but you can choose to exercise more patients with people.

Answer 2

My first girlfriend was an identical twin. In some respects they were similar, but nobody would've made the mistake of saying they were alike. They had different personalities and interests.

One big problem is none of the terms have been defined, making for a hazy issue. I'd make a distinction between character and personality, the first being more general. There'd be three basic spheres then:
1. character (what you're born with),
2. environment (where you find yourself), and
3. personality (how you choose to act)

Character and environment will condition your personality, though they won't determine it. That's where choosing comes in. And that act isn't fixed: your options must be at least two at all times. One choice is no choice.

Personality isn't forever; it's crafted day by day. It's the sum of your choices, and each one you make sets up a potential habit. That's why people's personalities can change over time, and also why you don't have to be exactly as you are. To a certain extent habits are changeable - maybe not an easy task, but it's possible.

Answer 3

Nurture defiantly affects someones personality by both knowledge and healthy choices. Your parent teaches you most of the things that you know and most of the ways you look at things as well. If you have a druggie parent that thinks it's OK to do drugs then more than likely you will be a druggie to. I'm not saying all the time but most of the time you will be. But on the other hand if you have a parent with morals then you adapt those same ideas. It's the same thing with friends.

Angel H

Answer 4

Well I see it as nurture affects it more (at least at a younger age) because when your younger your more impressionable to your surroundings but when you grow up a lot of those impressions remain imprinted on you but you also pick up new things from your various changes in environments or surroundings. Choice however, always affects your personality because you have always have your own mind to make your own choices

Answer 5

Nurture & experience form the personality.

Answer 6

the arguement of nature VS nurture has been going on for generations but think of this; if a guy is born a guy but raised like a girl? does that make him a guy or a girl has nature or nurture defined his gender identity?

Answer 7

We are born with personality and nature that defines who we are and how we would react. These are constants that are very difficult to change but life and experience mould our natures to be the outcome of what we are given and what we learn.

It is experiences that makes changes to our nature rather than choice but it is our choice from those experiences and what we do with them that determines our final nature.

Answer 8

Your personality is about 80% genetic and 20% affected by your environment. That's based on studies of separated identical twins.

Answer 9

I would say both, some times hot weather can make you feel awful, and you look like another person, and some times , choice can change you

Answer 10

It's choice.

You can choose to be selfish. You can choose to be selfless. These are states and actions that can be chosen. Each personality trait that I can think of is a trait that can be chosen or disregarded.

It's a choice to believe that we have no control over who we are and what we do.