Like father, like son? Think again! People inherit surprisingly little of their personality from their parents, study reveals


by Daily Mail

Daily Mail— Researchers at the University of Edinburgh say we're only slightly more likely to share personality traits with our parents than we are with a random stranger.

The Guardian—Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child. Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adultsThe eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought.Led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University’s department of psychology, the study looked at more than 1,000 pairs of relatives to establish how likely...

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