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The controversy over what determines who we are, whether it is Nature (heredity, our biological make up) or Nurture (our environment). Through the past decades psychologists have developed different theories to explain the characteristics of human-beings; how we feel, think and behave. Usually, these theories were one directional in the nature/nurture question. I do not think there is a middle ground between nature and nuture. I think that nurture over rules most heredity aspects, …

…be that the genetics influence on certain trait increase as people age. A research was done to see whether a trait would show up a in a child if it was environmentally influenced or genetically influenced. A child was given more negative attention that anther was, and it increased the chances of the child having depressive symptoms and anti-social behavior. But these symptoms disappeared when accounted for genetic influences and how parents treat their children.