Is personality inherited?

The personality is defined as a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person who uniquely influences his or her cognitions, emotions, motivations, and behaviors in various situations. Since the Scientifics initiated the studies on this one, several theories and positions have arisen, but the dilemma continues being the same: Is personality inherited? Those who are inclined for the biological approach of the personality swear that genetic influences are the highest; but, does sciences limits itself only to the comprehensible thing for the human mind, allowing to these investigators supporting his motions? Are we even so closed mind that we do not accept the existence of things beyond the physical, biological or genetic? The researchers of not biological model of the personality have created divers expositions, although cannot be measurable accurately, the experience gives a certain evidence of their existence. Such it is the case of the father of the psychotherapy, Sigmun Freud who was considered insane and radical but his theory is very accepted and served of base for many modern theories. The scientists Cooper and Zubeck, pioneers in how it influences the environment in the development of the conduct, formulated a study, where different populations were exposed at the same controlled environment, obtaining very similar results. In addition, Investigations of several universities of United States and Europe consider genetics influence is minimal in the personality, for example, a study realized in Michigan University with 6148 persons where they attribute to heritage only 10% of incidence in the formation of the personality. On the other hand, the American Psychologist Albert Bandura rises that the personality is formed by social learning. His theory says that the personality develops across the perception of the behaviors of the others and to see the consequences that these produce. While more positive are the consequences of the conducts of the "role model" there is more probable that they are acquired by the person. The maximum defender of acquired personality is the behaviorist Burrus Frederick Skinner, who defined the personality as an array of behaviors provoked by similar models of reinforcement that have been received in the past before diverse situations. He raises that the personality is moldable and consists only of observable conducts. If even after reading this, you continue supporting the biological aspect, it does not matter. The intention of this is not determine which has major veracity. The neuralgic points is study them as a whole, and try to understand the complexity of the human as biopsychosocial, to predict them and to evaluate them integrally.