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  2. Biological basis of personality - Wikipedia

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    Both humans and animals have been observed to measure personality traits, but animals are particularly useful for studying the long-term behavioral-biological relationship of personality. [ 17 ] Another interesting method that has become more sophisticated and affordable to researchers is the method of whole genome expression analysis.

  3. Reciprocal determinism - Wikipedia

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    Reciprocal determinism is the theory set forth by psychologist Albert Bandura which states that a person's behavior both influences and is influenced by personal factors and the social environment. Bandura accepts the possibility that an individual's behavior may be conditioned through the use of consequences. At the same time he asserts that a ...

  4. Human behaviour genetics - Wikipedia

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    Human behaviour genetics is an interdisciplinary subfield of behaviour genetics that studies the role of genetic and environmental influences on human behaviour. Classically, human behavioural geneticists have studied the inheritance of behavioural traits. The field was originally focused on determining the importance of genetic influences on ...

  5. Personality - Wikipedia

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    Cross-cultural assessment depends on the universality of personality traits, which is whether there are common traits among humans regardless of culture or other factors. If there is a common foundation of personality, then it can be studied on the basis of human traits rather than within certain cultures.

  6. Behavioural genetics - Wikipedia

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    The start of behaviour genetics as a well-identified field was marked by the publication in 1960 of the book Behavior Genetics by John L. Fuller and William Robert (Bob) Thompson. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] It is widely accepted now that many if not most behaviours in animals and humans are under significant genetic influence, although the extent of genetic ...

  7. Human behavior - Wikipedia

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    Human behavior is the potential and expressed capacity (mentally, physically, and socially) of human individuals or groups to respond to internal and external stimuli throughout their life. Behavior is driven by genetic and environmental factors that affect an individual.

  8. Trait theory - Wikipedia

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    This can make the study of personality difficult as meaning and the expression of traits may be different within cultural groups. Trait theory uses a hierarchy of traits in order to separate culture from the traits; it can be said the culture is ignored in order to focus on the individual traits and how they are connected to the individual. [9]

  9. Four Fs (evolution) - Wikipedia

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    The list of the four activities appears to have been first introduced in the late 1950s and early 1960s in articles by psychologist Karl H. Pribram, with the fourth entry in the list being known by terms such as "sex" [2]: 11, 13 or occasionally "fornicating", [3]: 155 although he himself did not use the term "four Fs".