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#353 - Robert Plomin - How Do Genes Influence Our Behaviour?

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How Do Genetics and Parenting Influence Our Behavior?

Psychology for a century just assumed everything's nurture. The way you are is the way your parents treated you. Now we know half of the differences are not are genetic. Half that aren't genetic are not what we thought they were. They're not due to these systematic effects of parenting. We call it stochastic events. Bill Clinton says he got into politics because at the age of 16, he shook JFK's hand,. John F. Kennedy's hand. And that just really made him say, I want to go into politics.

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