Actual psychology: personality comes mostly from genes plus noise. Psych-adjacent fields (life coaching, self-help, New Age therapies): personality comes from unresolved childhood trauma & maladaptive parenting. The persistence of Freudianism never ceases to astound me.
Then you'd find more so-called 'GxE' (gene x environment) interaction effects in behavior genetics studies. But there are hardly any GxE effects reliably found.
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What about epigenetic changes associated with HPA axis genes like NR3C1? Do you think behavior is not influenced by physiological responses to stimuli?
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