Character is about our moral compass and ethics perspectives – some of which are personally and culturally specific; some of which are universal. Personality is more about outward manifestations of the individual self, based on how you see yourself and how others see you.

What conclusion can we come to regarding the role of biology and environment on personality? 1)Genes and environment combine equally to contribute to personality development.

Psychologists say that our personality is mainly a result of four major determinants, i.e. Physical (Biological/Hereditary), Social (the community you are brought up in and your role in the community), Psychological (your behaviour, emotions and inner thought patterns) and Intellectual (your values and beliefs).

The Big Five Personality Test

Curious Synonyms. inquiring, questioning, prying; inquisitive, interested, meddlesome, inquisitive. curious, strange, nosy, interested, odd, inquisitive.

EPISTEMOPHILIA, noun: an excessive love of knowledge.

• Marie Curie. This Polish-born French scientist was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only woman to win it in two different fields (physics and chemistry).
• Albert Einstein.
• Mae Jemison.
• Benjamin Banneker.
• Vera Rubin.
• Richard Feynman.
• Rachel Carson.
• Carl Sagan.

Here are 13 signs of curiosity, and why they matter in sales.

1. 1) You love to learn. Curious people tend to be avid learners.
2. 2) You live to solve problems.
3. 3) Questions don’t scare you.
4. 4) You’ll talk about anything.
5. 5) Virtually nothing bores you.
6. 6) You question everything.
7. 13) You stay in the moment.

The new research reveals that the need to know is so strong that people will seek to slake their curiosity even when it is clear the answer will hurt. Curiosity is often considered a good instinct—it can lead to new scientific advances, for instance—but sometimes such inquiry can backfire.