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Separated at Birth (Encore)

2025/2/12
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@Speaker : 我认为心理学界最大的争论之一就是先天与后天之争,也就是基因和环境哪个对我们影响更大。我们都倾向于认为,即使在不同的家庭、不同的地方、甚至不同的时代长大,我们仍然会是现在的自己。但那是因为我们无法想象自己成为一个完全不同的人。为了研究这个问题,我认为最好的方法是研究同卵双胞胎,因为他们拥有完全相同的基因,然后观察他们在不同环境下长大后的差异。虽然同卵双胞胎被分开抚养的情况非常罕见,但确实有一些案例,这些案例为我们提供了宝贵的数据,帮助我们更好地理解先天与后天之间的关系。

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This chapter explores the long-standing debate in psychology regarding the relative contributions of genetics and environment in shaping human personality. It introduces the concept of using identical twins raised in different environments to study this question and explains the rarity of such cases.
  • Nature vs nurture debate
  • Identical twins raised in different environments
  • Rarity of cases

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In the 1960s, a New York clinical psychiatrist and an adoption agency conducted an experiment. They separated multiple sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets into different families to test how much of personality is due to genetics or the environment. 

None of the children or families were ever told about this. 

The results of this experiment, and other cases like it, have proved to be fascinating.

Learn more about identical twins and triples that were separated at birth on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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