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Old 10-29-2012, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by graciegirl View Post
Many years ago when writing a paper I read the book, Shyness by Phillip Zimbardo.

Very interesting and at the time well written, but we know more about human behavior these days. It may have been the time that all behavior was thought to be changable. Now we know that a lot of personality traits are inherited.
Search: "Why are identical twins different?"

They have identical genes but they don't have identical experiences, and, to a large extent, experience shapes personality.