Who we are now is something that might go back as far as first grade.
It's looking more and more like our personalities, even when we're gray haired, gets set in place when we are kids.
Think back to your first years in school and the classmates you had. Some were talkative, others pushy and others shy. Chances are they are still that way well into adulthood.
Researchers of a newly released study say that how we behave in 1st grade is a very strong predictor of how we will behave later on in life. They looked at how teachers rated over two thousand children's behavior back in the 1960's then checked up on these same kids forty years later as adults.
Even they were surprised by the closeness of personality traits. They reported in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science some examples. Those children identified as verbally fluent, meaning very talkative, tended to be middle age adults who displayed interest in intellectual matters, tried to control situations and had a high degree of intelligence. Impulsive students ended up being adults that spoke loudly and were talkative. On the other hand, those rated low on impulsivity ended up being timid adults who tended to be insecure.
So, it seems that it's tough to change what's already set in motion by first grade.
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