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#523 - Dr Christian Jarrett - The Science Of Personality Change
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Genetic Component to Your Personality?
There's a strong genetic component to our personality traits. People have predispositions physiologically that are gearing them toward being a particular style. So somebody could be high neuroticism because of that folding element, or maybe they have more cortisol receptors. These behaviors affect some of the underlying physiology that is relevant to personality traits. Things like lack of sleep, smoking, these kind of things are correlated with longitudinal studies show further down the line. You see these kind of harmful effects on the trait, on personality traits.
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