• Question: How come everyone in the world has a different personality?.

    Asked by coolkatie to Angela, Vince, Gopal, Hannah, Becky on 20 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by dinsoures, emilyybrookes.
    • Photo: Gopal Ramchurn

      Gopal Ramchurn answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      We all grow up in different environments and therefore learn different things as we grow, experience different events, and learn to reach to them differently. These experiences shape our personality. Hence, different people living in different places will have different personalities.

    • Photo: Hannah Little

      Hannah Little answered on 23 Jun 2013:

      Some people also argue that people are born with certain personality traits and dispositions which must be somehow encoded in our genes.

    • Photo: Rebecca Cook

      Rebecca Cook answered on 23 Jun 2013:

      Its still not completely understood, its difficult to explain how identical twins have different personalities. They share genetics and normally grow up in very similar environments but have different personalities. Scientists believe it is due to non-shared experiences, though the definition for this is quite vague!

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