Habits Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing…

— Carol S. Dweck

In my opinion, unique personality makes for a desirable trait.

— Shehnaaz Gill

“The evidence from behavior genetics and twin studies indicating that 40 to 50 percent of the variance among people in temperament, personality, and many…

— Michael Shermer

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by…

— Helen Fisher

“One stretch of the gene is repeated a variable number of times, and the version with seven repeats (the “7R” form) produces a receptor…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

— Anonymous

“Lots of work has examined the genes involved, most broadly showing that variants that produce lowered dopamine signaling (less dopamine in the synapse, fewer…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Genes have plenty to do with behavior. Even more appropriately, all behavioral traits are affected to some degree by genetic variability.65 They have to…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

“DNA evidence suggests that Neanderthals carried a gene known as DRD4-7R as long as forty thousand years ago. DRD4-7R is responsible for a constellation…

— Adam Alter

“As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I…

— Deborah Bray Haddock

“Multiple Personality Disorder—MPD—is not a game. It's not "acting" to impress anyone. Trust me, survivors do not receive positive attention for being multiple. Anyone…

— Margaret Smith