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Originally posted by isandro
Anyway, I think that I myself have learned to deal with this inherited aspect of my personality,
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This is exactly the issue when we talk about this: is "inheritance" due to genetics or learned environmental factors? Are you like your dad because you share his genes, or because you learned by watching him? Is someone depressed because they inherited a genetic tendency toward it from their parents or because they grew up around depressed people? A lot of it can, eventually, be answered empirically to some extent as we identify the genes involved in various social-emotional aspects of personality, but even then you have to break down "personality" into its components (temperament, mental health, internalizing/externalizing personality, etc.), and each component will have different levels of genetic variance as its cause. Maybe you could aggregate those components and come up with a genes vs. environment ratio, but I doubt it will ever be that simple.