Psychologists have known for ages that parents and children don't particularly share the big five personality traits (extroversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness and neuroticism)...Rather than participants only self-reporting their personality traits, they also chose a third party who knew them well to assess them.
This novel approach suggested more similarity between parents and offspring approximately 40% rather than the 25% of previous studies. But that is still very low.
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