DocumentaryEssay Preview: DocumentaryReport this essayIt is easy to answer some hard questions such as what does DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) stand for. One who studies in microbiology gets that answer in one second. For some easy questions, where does your character and personality come from? it is hard to answer such easy questions. One needs more time to get the answer. Psychologists may be concerned about ones childhood period and family environment. The character and personality is under the control of inherited genes but also is influenced by the environment. It is generally believed that the influence came from a family member during the childhood period and would spread to adulthood. To make a good character and personality for children, a family member needs to be a good role model.
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Podcast: A ‘Psychology of ‘Unusual’ Individuals: Psychological Study in Social and Cultural Contexts” by Dr. Peter G. Charnin. Journal of Human and Biological Cell Biology, 2, 014-0212(15 December 1995), 1.
Dr. Charnin, from the California Institute of Technology:
This article originally published June 22, 1997. In it, Dr. Charnin discusses the psychological and developmental history of several unusual individuals, and the results of his investigation into their character and personality. His paper was called “Unusual Individuals in the Sociological Context: A Case Study” which is available as an e-book in a special issue published in 1998 (U.S.A.: U.S.G. Publishers, 2000).
“I am writing to discuss how genetic and clinical research has brought an individual within our own research community to address certain difficult questions about the individual, from being more normal to being unique (like the fact that every family experience changes each year). I will be presenting my own results to the general public and explain why I believe that we have found abnormal genetic variation in individuals that are typically not unusual, like African-Americans and Caucasians. I will also demonstrate that, as people who are not normal or unique we are all one with some genetic risk,” writes Dr. Charnin’s co-author Michael J. W. Moore that was published in the same issue of the U.S. Psychological Supplement in 2004 and in a special issue in 2007. Moore’s paper details why so many of the subjects he interviewed (including myself) were at risk for being genetic non-normal. His paper “Unusual Individuals in the Sociological Context: A Case Study” was published in a special issue in April 2006 by U.S.C.-II.
In it Dr. Charnin reports, “The study investigated more than 100,000 individuals with genetic disorder. Each of these individuals was recruited over several decades and randomly screened for symptoms of various mental disorders and other mental health problems. Of their 2,000 interviews, only 1 had any of their mental health problems, but had a strong family background. Of those, 6 had no medical problems, but suffered from some childhood trauma and had other physical disorders that were not present in the first study.” Dr. Charnin writes he has not observed any negative genetic or clinical side effects like depression.
The following article is taken from the 2003-04 edition of Popular Science Magazine.
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Podcast: A ‘Psychology of ‘Unusual’ Individuals: Psychological Study in Social and Cultural Contexts” by Dr. Peter G. Charnin. Journal of Human and Biological Cell Biology, 2, 014-0212(15 December 1995), 1.
Dr. Charnin, from the California Institute of Technology:
This article originally published June 22, 1997. In it, Dr. Charnin discusses the psychological and developmental history of several unusual individuals, and the results of his investigation into their character and personality. His paper was called “Unusual Individuals in the Sociological Context: A Case Study” which is available as an e-book in a special issue published in 1998 (U.S.A.: U.S.G. Publishers, 2000).
“I am writing to discuss how genetic and clinical research has brought an individual within our own research community to address certain difficult questions about the individual, from being more normal to being unique (like the fact that every family experience changes each year). I will be presenting my own results to the general public and explain why I believe that we have found abnormal genetic variation in individuals that are typically not unusual, like African-Americans and Caucasians. I will also demonstrate that, as people who are not normal or unique we are all one with some genetic risk,” writes Dr. Charnin’s co-author Michael J. W. Moore that was published in the same issue of the U.S. Psychological Supplement in 2004 and in a special issue in 2007. Moore’s paper details why so many of the subjects he interviewed (including myself) were at risk for being genetic non-normal. His paper “Unusual Individuals in the Sociological Context: A Case Study” was published in a special issue in April 2006 by U.S.C.-II.
In it Dr. Charnin reports, “The study investigated more than 100,000 individuals with genetic disorder. Each of these individuals was recruited over several decades and randomly screened for symptoms of various mental disorders and other mental health problems. Of their 2,000 interviews, only 1 had any of their mental health problems, but had a strong family background. Of those, 6 had no medical problems, but suffered from some childhood trauma and had other physical disorders that were not present in the first study.” Dr. Charnin writes he has not observed any negative genetic or clinical side effects like depression.
The following article is taken from the 2003-04 edition of Popular Science Magazine.
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Podcast: A ‘Psychology of ‘Unusual’ Individuals: Psychological Study in Social and Cultural Contexts” by Dr. Peter G. Charnin. Journal of Human and Biological Cell Biology, 2, 014-0212(15 December 1995), 1.
Dr. Charnin, from the California Institute of Technology:
This article originally published June 22, 1997. In it, Dr. Charnin discusses the psychological and developmental history of several unusual individuals, and the results of his investigation into their character and personality. His paper was called “Unusual Individuals in the Sociological Context: A Case Study” which is available as an e-book in a special issue published in 1998 (U.S.A.: U.S.G. Publishers, 2000).
“I am writing to discuss how genetic and clinical research has brought an individual within our own research community to address certain difficult questions about the individual, from being more normal to being unique (like the fact that every family experience changes each year). I will be presenting my own results to the general public and explain why I believe that we have found abnormal genetic variation in individuals that are typically not unusual, like African-Americans and Caucasians. I will also demonstrate that, as people who are not normal or unique we are all one with some genetic risk,” writes Dr. Charnin’s co-author Michael J. W. Moore that was published in the same issue of the U.S. Psychological Supplement in 2004 and in a special issue in 2007. Moore’s paper details why so many of the subjects he interviewed (including myself) were at risk for being genetic non-normal. His paper “Unusual Individuals in the Sociological Context: A Case Study” was published in a special issue in April 2006 by U.S.C.-II.
In it Dr. Charnin reports, “The study investigated more than 100,000 individuals with genetic disorder. Each of these individuals was recruited over several decades and randomly screened for symptoms of various mental disorders and other mental health problems. Of their 2,000 interviews, only 1 had any of their mental health problems, but had a strong family background. Of those, 6 had no medical problems, but suffered from some childhood trauma and had other physical disorders that were not present in the first study.” Dr. Charnin writes he has not observed any negative genetic or clinical side effects like depression.
The following article is taken from the 2003-04 edition of Popular Science Magazine.
The essay “An American Childhood” by Annie Dillard is a good example of how a family member has influence on the children. This essay expresses her idea about her mother when the author looks back at her young age. Children will copy his or her character from the nearest person around them and develop this process until they mature. Family members would be the biggest influence to young children. A young girl imitates her mother and a young boy imitates his father, respectively. From the essay, Dillard said a lot about her mothers character and emotion in many points. Her mother is a strong and independent woman. The author says, “She was an unstoppable force; she never let go”(210). She means that her mother has strong energy to get something done and she never stops until it is accomplished. Her mothers character might differ from other ordinary women at the same time in the early 1960s. Her mother develops the seed of character and personality, which is the great impact and influence on her. For example, her mother questioned her about her assumption that Eisenhower would win the election. “How do you know?”(210) her mother questioned her. She said that everyone says that Eisenhower would win. Her mother asked “Did you ask everyone?”(210); She would definitely say that her mother was a straightforward person who questioned every detail in conversations. She had more and more unusual characteristics such as she persuaded the U.S. Post Office to let her keep her old address forever. The author may have learned not to be critical, but also taught her daughter to be independent and strong.
Someone might consider the influence one has and how the environment impacts his or her personality. All the people around children account for the impact of influential people. The role model person might be anyone close to you or might be a hero, heroine or great scientist. According to the essay “Sister Flowers” by Maya Angelou, she states in her essay about the respected person who affected a positive change in her character. The author said a lot about Mrs. Bertha Flowers whose name was the title of the essay. The first point the author makes in her essay is that the author admired Mrs. Flowers. Mrs. Flowers is a charming gentlewoman who is an aristocrat in the small town of Black Stamps. According to the speaker, she spend a lot of her time reading poems and books with Mrs. Flowers