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Personality- Traits and Values

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I’ve told you before how engineers (not ChemE’s) were trained back when I was going to school.  It was clearly a concept of “we will make you equal” development.  The engineer-in-training was honed to be completely compatible with the square box that the professors envisioned for their students.What makes a ChemE different

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Our Personalities Reflect Different Sizes of Brain Regions- Or Vice-Versa

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We now see that our personalities become fixed at a rather early age; some of us can, indeed, change our types (previous post), but it’s somewhat hard.  …  Most of us attributed these things to how  neurotransmitters and hormones affect our brain centers.  Yet, we also know that certain parts of the brain are associated with different behaviors.  The medial orbitofrontal cortex is involved with rewards (as is the neurotransmitter dopamine); other regions are associated with threat response; still others with negative effects and punishment; lateral prefrontal cortex deals with planning and voluntary behavior; and, there’s a region associated with  examining the mental states of others.

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