• Question: Are your 'likes or dislikes' influenced greater by nature or nurture?

    Asked by Inquisitive Mind to Jen on 13 Mar 2015.
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      Jen Machin answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      This is a good question, and quite a tricky one to answer. At the moment, people think it might be a combination of the two. So, for example (and this is quite a silly example!), something in your genes might make you more likely to like chocolate cake than other people, but maybe you might have a bad experience with a chocolate cake that made you poorly, so you end up not liking it at all! This means that nature and nurture can both play a big role in how your personality turns out 🙂

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