Personality trait enheritance from your parents

[albinoterrorist]

Picked up my mum's tendency for (as she puts it) "flatlining" (very little swing in moods, laid back personality) and my dad's crippling laziness and ability to waffle.
It's glorious.

 

[370999]

I picked up my dad's hatred of lateness meaning I arrive waaay to early.

I picked up my mother's ability to brood over perceived slights.

 

[Padwolf]

I picked up my dad's temper and his greatness with animals, but also his ability to brood. I picked up my stubbornness and sarcasm from my mother.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

Considering the number of times people call me by my Dads name, despite being 5 inches taller and beardless, I'm going to assume we share some personality traits. I know I've picked up his sense of humour (this is not a good thing).

 

[Strazdas]

Altrough some geneticists will argue, i believe you do not inherit personality. However your personality is defined by your past experiences, and a lot of the first ones are with parents, that form your personality to live amongst them, whether as a coping mechanism or as becoming similar.
I picked up some traits, but not all.


P.S. capcha: marry me
You son of a.....

 

[Yosato]

Altrough some geneticists will argue, i believe you do not inherit personality. However your personality is defined by your past experiences, and a lot of the first ones are with parents, that form your personality to live amongst them, whether as a coping mechanism or as becoming similar.
I picked up some traits, but not all.


P.S. capcha: marry me
You son of a.....

Yeah you're right there, most scientists maintain that there are no specific genes for individual personality traits. Having said that, most behaviour you *inherit* from your parents comes down to socialisation and conditioning (being brought up by violent people for example makes you more likely to be violent).

OT: I'm actually nothing like my mother at all, but my father's a tricky one. I don't get along well with either of them but with my dad it's more a case of us being alike in some instances but not others. Like me he's:

Argumentative - naturally this causes problems. Everyone wants the last word
Scientific - safer with numbers and equations, budgeting and so on
Proud - the nicer word for arrogant I suppose

But then UNlike me he's also:

Elitist - racist, homophobic, you name it. I generally detest people like that
No imagination - rarely enjoys anything thought-provoking and doesn't read at all
Completely faithless - not in terms of religion, he's just incapable of trusting anyone; doesn't think I'll amount to anything

. . . I guess I've had that bottled up for a while xD

 

[Palademon]

Apparently I'm most like my grandfather.
I wish I knew him more when he was alive, but he was too old to even hear a proper conversation.
Apparently I pace around when I think, like him. At the age I knew him he wasn't really fit to pace.

I guess I have my mum's ability to never grow up. This theory will be put to further test later. My mum is 60 and certainly doesn't act like it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I guess I inherited my dad passion for cooking as I do like to cook food myself.

 

[Miles000]

Dad's and Granddad's sense of humour...

Best. Trait. EVER!