A new study by Pennsylvania State University in State College, the University of Oregon in Eugene, and Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, followed sets of siblings in an effort to better understand whether our moral compass is solely down to our upbringing, or whether our genetic inheritance also has a say in the matter.

Amanda Ramos from Penn State University, refers to a person’s moral qualities as their “virtuous character” and explains that both nurture and nature could work together to shape them. A lot of studies have shown a link between parenting and these virtuous traits, but they haven’t looked at the genetic component.

Researchers conducted a study investigating the extent to which...

http://haleplushearty.org/2019/02/27/effects-of-genetics-and-parenting-on-behaviour/

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