Ni lo uno ni lo otro. Como el Dr. Robert Sapolsky describe en un escenario [^1], digamos que en nuestros genes hay algo que nos hace más vulnerables a desarrollar un episodio depresivo (esto real, pero lo detallaré en otra ocasión), pero esto no basta. Para que uno desarrolle este padecimiento (también otro tema es el uso de conceptos), es necesario que el individuo sufra una cantidad considerable de eventos traumáticos (la muerte de un ser querido, perdida de empleo o la detección de una enfermad grave, etc.). Entonces habrá algunos individuos que por su genética sean más sensibles a estos eventos, ¡pero eso no es todo! De las pocas cosas que les puede asegurar del ser humano es que somos un animal social, así que tambiés es un factor muy importante el apoyo de los seres queridos, por lo que una persona solitaria es más proclive a sufrir este padecimiento incluso si su genética jugara en contra suya. En resumen, muy pocas preguntas en cuanto a conducta las podemos responder solo con "sí" o "no", debemos considerar un montón de cosas y de hecho mucho de la labor cientítifica es explorar estos factores y agregar más de ellos.

Una última cosa: no soy un psicologo, de hecho mi rama de estudio está más cercana a la antropología, pero facilita las presentaciones.

Hello! I present myself: My name is José, I live in Mexico, I am in my 20s and I am studying Biology of Human Behavior. My main hobbies are reading (from narrative to academic texts), writing fiction and video games. I’ll leave it there for now.

As a person who is forming in science I like to spread what I learned these years , especially when it comes to something as particular as human nature. I’m sure many people have heard of this "debate" about whether humans are good or bad by nature. Actually, people who are researching our behavior are asking themselves much more interesting questions than this (in the future I will explain what is the big problem with that debate). For example: what does a person look for in their partner? Does therapy really work? Are social media a problem for our mental health ? How do we fight depression? All these questions I plan to address in my profile over time, I hope you can join me!

Why not just get started?

1. TENDENCIES or the problem with simple answers in behavior.

If one thing we learn from studying life is that there are no simple answers, everything is a mixture of factors that nobody really understands exactly where something begins and ends in something else, although most of the time we act as if it didn’t. To illustrate this, let’s ask a simple question: is depression a "chemical imbalance" or does something about our environment generate it?

Neither one nor the other. As Dr. Robert Sapolsky describes in a scenario, let’s say that in our genes there is something that makes us more vulnerable to develop a depressive episode (this real, but I will detail it on another occasion), yet this is not enough. For one to develop this condition (another issue is the use of concepts, especially in human behaviour), it is necessary for the individual to suffer a considerable traumatic events (the death of a loved one, loss of employment or detection of a serious illness, etc.). Then there will be some individuals who by their genetics are more sensitive to these events, but that’s not all! Of the few things that can assure you of the human being is that we are a social animal, so it is also a very important factor the support of loved ones, so a lonely person is more likely to suffer this condition even if his genetics played against him. In short, very few behavioral questions can be answered only by "yes" or "no", we should consider a lot of things and in fact much of the scientific work is to explore these factors and add more of them.

One last thing: I am not a psychologist, in fact my branch of study is closer to anthropology, but it facilitates presentations.