Originally posted by: DragonOutlaw
I'am kind of torn between the whole Nature Vs Nurture issue myself.
evolutionary psychology dictates that isolating them into distinct nature and nurture categories isn't practical, and the common analagy made with this is one involving bread. You dont say that bread is 70% ingredients and 30% heat. You say that the ingredients, when introduced to a catalyst like heat, provides the product which is bread.

In this sense, the slate that everyone starts out with is the ingredients, which are the favorable physical traits as well as mental "modules" (that give us the abilities to do things such as face recognition, language learning, emotion, etc.) that are passed down through evolution. The personalities we recieve are the result of taking these ingredients to a catalyst (in this case, our environment).

well, something to that effect anyway.