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    Are we born with personality types as a result of our genetic code or are personalities formed at a young age while our minds are highly malleable? Perhaps it's a mix of both, but either way there will be predominance of either genetics or environment and which one do you think it is?
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    inborn.

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    I/E is inborn and unchangeable, since it's a characteristic of your brain's functioning.

    T/F and N/S in socionics are basically skillsets, so you can be an ethical type involved in a logical field and be intellectually competitive, and vice-versa.

    J/P is useless, since it just describes how good you are at rationally controlling your limbic impulses with the reasoning abilities found in your neocortex; a function of experience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cat King Cole View Post
    I/E is inborn and unchangeable, since it's a characteristic of your brain's functioning.

    T/F and N/S in socionics are basically skillsets, so you can be an ethical type involved in a logical field and be intellectually competitive, and vice-versa.

    J/P is useless, since it just describes how good you are at rationally controlling your limbic impulses with the reasoning abilities found in your neocortex; a function of experience.
    I think I agree - at least I believe that your I/E is rather innate, whereas being T/F and N/S is somehow dependant on your nurture, although may be affected by your nature. Haven't decided on J/P.
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    I believe personality is very malleable, especially when one is young, and is almost entirely a matter of environmental influence. I think even the personality of adults could very easily change, were it not for the fact that we purposely put ourselves in familiar, comfortable environments that don't conduce to such change. That is not to say that many aspects of personality -- such as introversion or extroversion -- can't be predicted from a young age; rather, the reason they can is environmental rather than innate. For example, it is conceivable that an infant with a preference for introversion might easily become an extrovert if situated in a stimulating environment; however, his preference for introversion ensures that he will disfavor such an environment, and thereby grow up to be an introvert.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cat King Cole View Post
    J/P is useless, since it just describes how good you are at rationally controlling your limbic impulses with the reasoning abilities found in your neocortex; a function of experience.
    Where have you got this information from?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarno View Post
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    J/P is useless, since it just describes how good you are at rationally controlling your limbic impulses with the reasoning abilities found in your neocortex; a function of experience.
    Where have you got this information from?
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    Yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cat King Cole View Post
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    Where have you got this information from?
    Which information?
    uhm the information that you posted, which I quoted...

    here it is again:

    'J/P is useless, since it just describes how good you are at rationally controlling your limbic impulses with the reasoning abilities found in your neocortex; a function of experience.'

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    Quote Originally Posted by labcoat View Post
    inborn.

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    I'm not sure how any of you can feel certain one way or the other. What even leads you to a conclusion of any sort on the matter, past blind belief?
    But, for a certainty, back then,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    I'm not sure how any of you can feel certain one way or the other. What even leads you to a conclusion of any sort on the matter, past blind belief?
    I think the same people on this forum are getting born constantly. EIE today, SLE tomorrow, ESE today, LSI tomorrow for instance. Judging by this ongoing tendency I'll risk saying that people are born with multiple personalities. Multiple personality disorder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    Are we born with personality types as a result of our genetic code or are personalities formed at a young age while our minds are highly malleable? Perhaps it's a mix of both, but either way there will be predominance of either genetics or environment and which one do you think it is?
    Your mum and dad gave you that genetic code. That's the reason you're here, that is, you're completely different, new. You're not your mum, you're not your dad. Think of it like of a synthesis, a nuclear synthesis where your mum and dad smacked hard to produce you, that is to get that boom.

    Having said that, I think one is born blank ready to be filled with ink.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
    Your mum and dad gave you that genetic code. That's the reason you're here, that is, you're completely different, new. You're not your mum, you're not your dad. Think of it like of a synthesis, a nuclear synthesis where your mum and dad smacked hard to produce you, that is to get that boom.

    Having said that, I think one is born blank ready to be filled with ink.
    Me too

    I've known "identical" twins in school that couldn't possibly be the same type...
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    Quote Originally Posted by woofwoofl View Post
    I've known "identical" twins in school that couldn't possibly be the same type...
    Bingo! Said it from beginning.

    I thought this socionics business does stupify people, I'm really glad I'm proven wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Absurd View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    Are we born with personality types as a result of our genetic code or are personalities formed at a young age while our minds are highly malleable? Perhaps it's a mix of both, but either way there will be predominance of either genetics or environment and which one do you think it is?
    Your mum and dad gave you that genetic code. That's the reason you're here, that is, you're completely different, new. You're not your mum, you're not your dad. Think of it like of a synthesis, a nuclear synthesis where your mum and dad smacked hard to produce you, that is to get that boom.

    Having said that, I think one is born blank ready to be filled with ink.
    That's disturbing, but true haha. I wouldn't say we were born blank as that is too extreme, but I agree with the part about being filled with ink.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Traveler View Post
    That's disturbing, but true haha. I wouldn't say we were born blank as that is too extreme, but I agree with the part about being filled with ink.
    Extreme is my middle name, glad you agree, though.

    Quote Originally Posted by RSV3 View Post
    I think it's most likely a combination of nature and nurture, with one's type being completely formed/fixed at some point during early childhood.
    Not to mention most of it is learned. Haha, I mean, one doesn't come into the world completely conscious of the world around him, does one ?

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    Yes, personality types are inbred.

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    Quote Originally Posted by poli View Post
    Yes, personality types are inbred.


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    Quote Originally Posted by poli View Post
    Yes, personality types are inbred.
    lol, I have thought about exactly the same joke.
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    the answer is inborn.

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    I think we are born with a "personality". The Socionics model provides 16 types along with 16x4 subtypes. So there are "only" 64 different types of people.
    On the other hand, I can recall differential equations. I'll add this analogy. The same equation (person or just "p type"), with different initial values (background) WILL produce a very different function/solution (a concrete person, a life path).

    Look at those cosine functions. The same shape: f(x)=a*cos(b*x). Change a,b or f(p)=q instead of f(p)=r. You get different waves,although they follow the same law.



    I have seen identicals (Ti-ENTp) in whom I can see myself. Take the weather for instance, it may sound crazy, but those people who are born and grow in the Mediterranean are usually more "easygoing" than those who live in the Cold Northern Europe. Your relatives, your local culture, etc shape you and that's why there are 7000 000 000 different people, assuming Superman and Clark Kent are the same person.
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    I think inborn. Especially after observing my two boys and how different they have been from the very start. My youngest was a completely different baby from his brother; I could notice the difference almost from Day 1.

    Not to say that young children aren't inclined to "try on" other personalities. I do believe that their openness and malleability allows them to experiment more with different ways of being and different ways of thinking. Think of a child imitating a certain behavior of his parents, for instance. If he tries it and decides that he likes it-- that is, that it gives him some psychological benefit-- then he's more likely to carry on that behavior or thought process long term; if he tries it and sees no benefit, or feels uncomfortable afterwards, then he will ultimately reject it in the future.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pianosinger View Post
    I think inborn. Especially after observing my two boys and how different they have been from the very start. My youngest was a completely different baby from his brother; I could notice the difference almost from Day 1.
    How sure do you feel that these differences are related to Socionics?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pianosinger View Post
    I think inborn. Especially after observing my two boys and how different they have been from the very start. My youngest was a completely different baby from his brother; I could notice the difference almost from Day 1.
    How sure do you feel that these differences are related to Socionics?
    Not all of them are, but some I believe could be Socionics related. Especially, I'm pretty certain about my oldest being an Intuitor and my youngest being a Sensor; there's a pretty big difference there.

    Also, temperament is more or less apparent (though occasionally I am not so sure). My oldest is most likely an Ep, and my youngest some sort of Introverted type.
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    Both.

    I view type as one of the very early specializations the human brain makes. I think the story of 'growing up' can be seen as the story of specialization, especially in the brain. You show up here as an undifferentiated mass of potential, basically. And gradually, starting even in your mother's womb, you learn ways of doing things, and your brain learns which pathways to strengthen and which ones to prune, and which knowledge (and types of knowledge) are relevant and important. You learn routines, habits, ways of doing things, ways of seeing the world.

    And one of those early ways of seeing the world you learn is your base function. This is probably a result of a combination of inherent brain chemistry and training from environment. If you are trained early on that a certain behavior gets you what you want, very slowly and subtly, you'll learn both to perform that behavior, and to see the world from a mindset that makes that behavior possible, and begins to make that behavior more subtly expressed. You begin to develop both behavior and the outlook needed to improve the behavior. That is function strength. And, because that behavior gets you what you want (and, eventually produces cognitive harmony rather than confusion/cognitive dissonance), you gradually come to enjoy both the behavior and the underlying mindset through a sort of conditioning mechanism. And that is where valued/unvalued comes from. Valued/unvalued + function strength = type.

    The real place that socionics comes in (and science goes out) is in diagnosing the results of this specialization for other areas of cognition, i.e., if you specialize in information that falls under the heading of, say, Ni, this naturally leads to you having developed ability to understand information that falls under the heading of Ne. But you tend to not care about that information very much. And if you specialize in Te information, this leads you to have a sort of psychic blindspot at Fi, but one that you very much want covered, the complementary opposite/other-half of your information processing style.

    I don't have any proof for this story of how type comes about, but I think it's an interesting hypothesis that fits in a lot of important places what I know about how the brain works, even though that's a pretty small amount.


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    That's a hard question. There's no exact rational reason why type should be inborn, yet all of my observations lead me to believe it is (yes, the old twin question - every pair of identical twins I know seem to share types). So, I don't know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
    That's a hard question. There's no exact rational reason why type should be inborn, yet all of my observations lead me to believe it is (yes, the old twin question - every pair of identical twins I know seem to share types). So, I don't know.
    Do you regularly psychoanalyze infants?

    I've known identical twins who were REALLY obviously different types...
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    I think it's inborn, but not everything inborn is genetic. Both my kids showed aspects of their personality in the hospital before they came home for the first time. But there are more things than genetics that affect developing fetuses, and it could be somewhat random. There could be one cause, or a mix of causes.
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    apparently,we'll have to run experiments.i think Slacker's next kid could be a close-to-perfect candidate.better start from the craddle you feelin me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
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    That's a hard question. There's no exact rational reason why type should be inborn, yet all of my observations lead me to believe it is (yes, the old twin question - every pair of identical twins I know seem to share types). So, I don't know.
    Do you regularly psychoanalyze infants?
    No, but I try to type small kids (4-5 years old).

    I've known identical twins who were REALLY obviously different types...
    Well yeah many people here have, but I haven't. That's why I have exposed my opinion as conflicted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
    No, but I try to type small kids (4-5 years old).
    lol me too. It's a hard call though, children become very impressionable around 18 months, which is before their personalities become too distinct.

    Well yeah many people here have, but I haven't. That's why I have exposed my opinion as conflicted.
    Ah, I missed that the first time around.
    But, for a certainty, back then,
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    We hurt others and were hurt ourselves...

    Yet even then, we ran like the wind,
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    Quote Originally Posted by silverchris9 View Post
    Both.
    I agree. It's always a mix of both nature and nurture. Two genetically very similar individuals (twins for example) can clearly have very different personalities dependent on their social circle and the things they experience. Even if they gain information in a similar way, they can still draw totally different conclusions out of the given material or experiences. However, I also believe it's partly genetically since it's not uncommon that children share personal traits of their ancestors. I suppose this is also part of the biological heritage children get from their parents along with features of their appearance, which is also a fact.

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    Quote Originally Posted by silverchris9 View Post
    Both.

    I view type as one of the very early specializations the human brain makes. I think the story of 'growing up' can be seen as the story of specialization, especially in the brain. You show up here as an undifferentiated mass of potential, basically. And gradually, starting even in your mother's womb, you learn ways of doing things, and your brain learns which pathways to strengthen and which ones to prune, and which knowledge (and types of knowledge) are relevant and important. You learn routines, habits, ways of doing things, ways of seeing the world.
    I totally agree about the part about starting in the mother's womb. People don't realize that we start off as a tiny cell in the womb! It isn't a totally crazy idea to think that a large part of our personality is formed while we develop into an infant in the womb. Of course genetics will make it more likely for your development to head into a specific direction. In the end its the environment during utero, infancy and childhood that will shape and mold your genetics into the person you are today.
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    My understanding from pediatrician visits is that our brains are not completely developed until around the age of 3. Something like that.
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    I think most people who study socionics would say it is solely genetic, but that position doesn't seem to have much empirical support...

    I think it's most likely a combination of nature and nurture, with one's type being completely formed/fixed at some point during early childhood.

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    You're the exact same type as one of your parents as a result of the asexual reproduction of that parent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slacker View Post
    My understanding from pediatrician visits is that our brains are not completely developed until around the age of 3. Something like that.
    Maybe you can make mold kids towards being a certain type before that age. Slacker, get to work, don't be giving that baby Ti! . Don't reward her for putting blocks in the right spaces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lobo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Slacker View Post
    My understanding from pediatrician visits is that our brains are not completely developed until around the age of 3. Something like that.
    Maybe you can make mold kids towards being a certain type before that age. Slacker, get to work, don't be giving that baby Ti! . Don't reward her for putting blocks in the right spaces.
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