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Who are you? It is the most fundamental of real human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to see them from the comfort of air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities are endlessly interesting - not just to ourselves but also to our spouses, our parents, our kids, our co-workers, our friends and neighbors. As a highly social varieties, humans have to understand among an astonishing variety of personalities. But how performed each one of these different permutations happen? And what purpose do they serve? With her trademark wit and sly laughter, Hannah Holmes calls for readers into the amazing world of personality and modern brain technology. While using the Five Factor Model, which slices temperaments into the major factors (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness) and trivial facets (such as impulsive, imaginative, or cautious), Holmes shows how our genes and brains dictate which factors and facets each folks displays. Are you a Anxious Nelly? Your amygdala is most likely calling the injections. Hyperactive Hal? It's all about the dopamine. Each facet took root deep in the evolution of life on Earth, with Nature allowing enough personal variant to see a species through memories and bad. Just like there are introverted and extroverted people, there are introverted and extroverted mice, and even starfish. In fact, the personality genes we tell mice make sure they are very helpful models for the analysis of disorders like major depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety. Thus it is profound and traditional biases that guide your dealings with a very modern world.
