Pyschology question!

[Bioture]

well, from what I remember in the intro psych class I took 3 years ago, it's impossible (or near impossible) to seperate physical apperance and interpersonal treatment completely.

It's a lot easier if we think about it in terms of examples:

1) A hideous person farts
2) A beautiful person farts

Which is more acceptable? Maybe the better question is, which would you want to be more acceptable, based on your own predispositions?

[Material Girl]

Yah. So anyway... I have to find a big black guy! B)

[Liquid Blue]

sometimes people make responding way to easy.

[Facetious]

i agree that its an equal combination of genes and experiences for most people. as far as rich, hot girls are concerned though i think the reason they are snobby is more experiential, however. i'm sure everyone knows the one or two girls who were cool "guy's girls" in middle school or early high school that were funny, reasonable, etc that grew nice tits and all of a sudden became attention-seeking man-eating bitches. it COULD be that because these girls hit puberty something unlocked in their brain chemistry, but i think its because they realized through experience that they could just get what they wanted (attention) without being caring or interesting any more.

on the other hand, and this isnt really related, i think a lot of REALLY hot girls end up being snobby out of necessity, not selfishness. i think it would suck to have every person that you think is worth talking to try to fuck you just because you talk to them. naturally, youd gravitate towards other good-looking people (who might not be as desperate to fuck you since they get to fuck people like you more often).

[Rhino_haha]

What I want to know from you, is - do you agree?

That theory is what is most widely accepted by psychologists today, that we are the product of both enviornment and genetics, doesnt necessarily say equal, but a mixture of them both.

And yes, I do agree

[Fit of Rage]

Saying that genetic predispositions alone govern someone's behavior is simply ignorant because studies have shown that people are outright influenced by occurances around them (peer pressure and occupational conditioning come to mind).

Conversely, saying that environmental factors alone influence someone's actions is also stupid because experiments have shown that certain diseases (e.g. schizophrenia) have an extremely high correlation for heredity to carry them through generations.

Logically, it would only make sense if both played some part in determining our behavior. Despite this, most decisions merely come down to our own conscience and how much we let outside forces or internal wants decide what's best for us.

[Facetious]

what do you think dictates our concience, since your conclusion from the first two inane-as-shit statements is that we use our concience?

[Fit of Rage]

The point was this: what do you choose your influences to be? Your friends? Your family? Your religion? Some inane social standard? Everyone has precisely that choice. You choose your influences, they don't predispose you.

[K2Grey]

Your choice of who to influence you, however, may be said to be directly based on what your previous influences have been, and on your genetic makeup combined with some random chance