Psychology › Section K · Personality › Topic K.6
Biological approaches
Some babies startle at every noise while others sleep through anything, long before parents or culture could have shaped them. Biological approaches ask how much of personality is built in: through temperament, through genes and through our evolutionary history.
In this topic
- Nature in personality
- Temperament: Thomas and Chess
- Reactivity and self-regulation
- Twin and adoption studies
- The Minnesota twins reared apart
- Worked example: estimating heritability from twins
- What heritability does not mean
- Worked example: reading a gene headline
- Evolution and personality
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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