Is it nature or is it nurture, heredity or society? In that great debate of our time, conservatives lean toward the former and liberals toward the latter. I believe both are asking the wrong question.

Are we born or made this way? Short answer: It's both. Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Are we born with our personality characteristics, or do we become who we are because of the world around us? The ...

The question of whether human behavior is driven by innate biological forces or the product of our learning and environment has been a popular discussion at cocktail parties and scientific conferences ...

A well-known analogy developed by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in the 1970s imagines culture as an iceberg. What typically grabs the attention – the way people talk, dress, and behave in any given ...

Erika Hayasaki’s book “Somewhere Sisters: a story of adoption, identity, and the meaning of family” explores a very complicated multifamily, multinational story. At the heart of the book are sisters: ...

The day my identical twin boys were delivered by an emergency cesarean, I noticed a behavioral difference. Twin A, who had been pushed against an unyielding pelvis for several hours, spent most of his ...

She grew up with the same genetics but perhaps not quite the same environment as I did and though I instilled respect, ...