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Personality is the characteristic of an individual involving attitudes, beliefs, values and behaviors. Personality traits determine how we adjust to our environment and how we react in certain situations. All this has to do with the debate against Nature versus Nurture. The debate is mainly if (nature) heredity, or inherited genetic characteristics affect our socialization or if it’s (nurture) environment and social learning. Those who believe in the nature viewpoint believe that human behavior is instinctual in origin. Instinct is an unchangeable, biological animal behavior: Calvin & Hobbs; Hobbs the tiger is a perfect example of Nature the pure wants and needs, and animalistic behavior. Thomas Hobbes the human philosopher believed that people’s most basic motives are selfish. While Calvin the young blonde haired boy is more innocent, and involved with society. Charles Cooley, who is represented as Calvin the young boy in Calvin and Hobbs.. He believed in the looking-glass self which is the interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we project through their reactions to our behavior.
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