Jul 30, 2021
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Temperament — Aspects of Personality Present at Birth
When do we become who we are?
Temperament has been defined as “inherited personality traits present in early childhood” (Buss & Plomin, 1985, p. 84). While the term personality implies a range of experience and learning that has developed over time, temperament, instead, is assumed to have a primarily genetic basis and thus be present at birth (Chess &…
