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o decide whether an individual’s personality and development are more influenced by genetic factors (nature) or by the environment (nurture). Research relating to identical twins has highlighted how significant inherited characteristics can be for an individual’s life. But whether these characteristics are able to develop within the personality of an individual surely depends on whether the circumstances allow such a development. It seems that the experiences we have in life are so unpredictable and so powerful that they can boost or override other influences and there seems to be plenty of research findings to confirm this. My own view is that there is no one major influence in a person’s