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If you've ever felt like totally giving up on trying to change your character flaws, congratulations! We may have the perfect excuse.A new study suggests that your personality is determined at birth, and that it may be pretty resistant to environmental factors. Researchers found that subjects generally fell into one of four personality types, based on the volumes of tissues in different parts of their brains.
The four types of personalities are "novelty-seeking" (like your best friend who climbed a tree naked and now has incurable ringworm), "reward-dependence" (that guy who is addicted to everything), "persistence" (stuck-ups and perfectionists) and "harm-avoidance" (grouches, recluses, agoraphobics and other-people-averse types).
The good news? Researchers say that this data can be used to create individualized discipline and learning plans for kids. You know, just like in "Brave New World." (Sorry! We'd be optimistic about it, but we we're physiologically incapable.)
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Wednesday 15 April
By Kevin Gordon
Eysenck had a theory of the 8 stages of life.
During each stage our view of the world that we live in changes either by the stage we are in or the events that take place. Placing human beings into four basic categories is insanity. The human organism is unique. Each one is an individual. No two people think the same, other than certain types of twins. This has been proven time and time again.
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Wednesday 15 April
By Kevin Gordon
This is a very dangerous conclusion.
It takes no account of the effects of the world on the agency of the individual.
It is the first step towards automatic categorization of individuals from birth.
It takes away their freedom to be themselves.
It removes the right for self-determination.
It isolates humanity from being.
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