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A person’s social behavior depends upon the education, family status, circumstances and friendship, these are all emerges from certain stages of life, but the foundation for the real nature originates with the genes, which means by birth some features imported into people.

If you are too much sensitive towards others around you, you might have the roots from your genes, as per a study report. The negative activities or defective attitudes are also linked to the genetic disorder or gene problems.

A gene called ADRA2b, which carries a variant to be more sensitive in society. They see the world differently and cares everything around them. “For people with this gene variation, the emotionally relevant things in the world stand out much more,” said lead author Rebecca Todd, psychology professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

The reasercher scanned the brains of 39 participants and among them 21 persons’ brains were carrying genetic variation. The carriers of the gene variation were active in a region of the brain responsible for regulating emotions.

“Emotions are not only about how feel about the world, but how our brains influence our perception of it,” senior author of the study Adam Anderson, professor of human development at the Cornell University in the US, pointed out.

“As our genes influence how we literally see the positive and negative aspects of our world more clearly, we may come to believe the world has more rewards or threats,” Anderson said.

The study, which was published in ‘The Journal of Neuroscience’ mentioned about the brain structures and movements of genes corresponding to the emotional feelings.

So, if the study report is believable – we can conclude a person behaving rude had defective genes from birth, and if a person is more sympathetic and empathetic, he had a good gene from parents.

However, the influence of gene would be negligible or minimal, the external factors like social order, care in childhood, surroundings may play role in behaviours.

-Kannamsai