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Do we get our personality from our parents?

We’ve all heard the saying ‘like father like son’ but how accurate is that statement? New r...

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14.58 29 Apr 2024


Do we get our personality from our parents?


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14.58 29 Apr 2024


We’ve all heard the saying ‘like father like son’ but how accurate is that statement? New research has been carried out to investigate how much of our personality we inherit from out parents. Joining Seán to discuss the findings is the lead author of the study, Dr René Mottus, Reader at the University of Edinburgh and Professor at the University of Tartu.


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