Are You A "Natural"?
Most people will answer the question of who they are by describing environmental influences in their life. They will describe their values, goals, and priorities as being completely influenced by someone significant to them such as a family member or idol. Genes are considered to be accountable for physical attributes such as height, weight, hair and eye color, and body type. The theory of behaviorism has dominated psychology during the second half of the twentieth century. This hard evidence was understood and accepted. Genetics was rejected due to its faulty scientific research. The thought that one can't change their own life is uneasy to the mind.
In order to test nature versus nurture one proposition is to get genetically identical people and place them in different environments, and then compare their data with data from genetically identical people raised in the same environment. Bouchard and Lykken took 56 pairs of monozygotic reared-apart......
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