The Genetic Basis of Personality
http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep02/genes.html
Is your personality genetically determined? This article nicely sums up the research to date on this question. I think some parts of personality are more genetically influenced than others, but I don't think genetics plays as great a role as one might think. I think we are more a product of our environment and our choices. But I still think we are still early in definitively answering exactly where our personalities come from. Heck, we don't even have an agreed upon definition of personality yet!
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