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  2. Genomics of personality traits - Wikipedia

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    Personality traits are patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that reflect the tendency to respond in certain ways under certain circumstances. [1] Personality is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and associated with mental health. [2] Beside the environment factor, genetic variants can be detected for personality traits.

  3. Environmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Environmental health shows the effects people have on the environment as well as the effects the environment has on people. [21] From early studies showing that patients with a view of nature from their hospital recovered faster than patients with a window view of a brick wall, [ 22 ] how, why, and to which extent nature has mental and physical ...

  4. Personality change - Wikipedia

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    Although there is debate surrounding whether or not personality can change in the late stages of life, more evidence is being discovered about how the environmental factors affect people of all ages. Changes in health are regarded as an influential source of personality stability and change. [62]

  5. Personality psychology - Wikipedia

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    Personality also pertains to the pattern of thoughts, feelings, social adjustments, and behaviors persistently exhibited over time that strongly influences one's expectations, self-perceptions, values, and attitudes. [2] Environmental and situational effects on behaviour are influenced by psychological mechanisms within a person. [3]

  6. Human behaviour genetics - Wikipedia

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    It has evolved to address more complex questions such as: how important are genetic and/or environmental influences on various human behavioural traits; to what extent do the same genetic and/or environmental influences impact the overlap between human behavioural traits; how do genetic and/or environmental influences on behaviour change across ...

  7. Environment and intelligence - Wikipedia

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    However, some of these effects of malnutrition have been shown to be improved upon with a good diet and environment. [23] Early nutrition can also affect brain structures that are actually correlated to IQ levels. Specifically, the caudate nucleus is particularly affected by early environmental factors and its volume correlates with IQ. In an ...

  8. Personality - Wikipedia

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    It has been shown that personality traits are more malleable by environmental influences than researchers originally believed. [11] [21] Personality differences predict the occurrence of life experiences. [21] One study has shown how the home environment, specifically the types of parents a person has, can affect and shape their personality.

  9. Person–environment fit - Wikipedia

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    Person–organization fit (P–O fit) is the most widely studied area of person–environment fit, and is defined by Kristof (1996) as, "the compatibility between people and organizations that occurs when (a) at least one entity provides what the other needs, (b) they share similar fundamental characteristics, or (c) both". [10]