Writer's Block: Nature or nurture
- Oct. 28th, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Do you think your moods are controlled by your brain chemistry or that your brain chemistry dictates your moods? Do you believe people are born with particular emotional temperaments or that they are primarily shaped by environmental factors?
it works both ways
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I wish she'd let us write our opinion even if it wasnt one sided, and that we could use information outside class work... there's more going for nurture than just "if we dont have human caregivers than we develop weird temperaments"(feral children)