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Episode: You Control your Destiny| Nature vs Nurture | Chapter 8 | Psych-100 | Flourish with Diane Planidin
Description: People have a deep intuition about what has been called the “nature–nurture question.” Some aspects of our behavior feel as though they originate in our genetic makeup, while others feel like the result of our upbringing or our own hard work. The scientific field of behavior genetics attempts to study these differences empirically, either by examining similarities among family members with different degrees of genetic relatedness, or, more recently, by studying differences in the DNA of people with different behavioural traits.
The scientific methods that have been developed are ingenious, but often inconclusive. Many of the diffic...