Genes program our preferences and habits1.
I need to know if there has been any research on genetic basis of decision making, since we often attribute habits to wrong decisions, and supposedly, there have been few genes implicated in habit formation or addictive behaviour2. So can we attribute making wrong decisions to genes?
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http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/09/11/addiction-how-our-genes-program-our-preferences-and-habits/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2715956/
Hello Sidharta!
Well, it's a little bit complicate to say if it's "good or bad", but definitively our genes can put "risky" on the equation, at least this is what recent data show us.
Here i left you this work in relation of 4 specificity genes and it's interaction with decision making process in suicide attempts. I hope be useful for you in some way.
Jollant, F., Buresi, C., Guillaume, S., Jaussent, I., Bellivier, F., Leboyer, M., ... & Courtet, P. (2007). The influence of four serotonin‐related genes on decision‐making in suicide attempters. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 144(5), 615-624.
Bests, David
Article The influence of four serotonin-related genes on decision-ma...
All traits in human being ( including behavior traits ) have two component : genetics and environment effects , but the relative importance of each component vary from trait to another , we use terminology heritability of the trait , which refer to the relative importance of genetic variance to the phenotypic variance . Intelligence individual has good genotype for thinking and linking information and imagine the results , in other hand there are many genetic disorders result mental retardation like Down syndrome .
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