The characteristics of a patient person .. The important thing is not "Who are you?" But also "Where are you?"

According to the "Marshmallow Test" between Austrian psychologist Walter Michel that children who have the ability to resist instant gratification and wait for the second piece of Marshmallo have made greater achievements in life, those who have been patient and have proven that they can wait were more able to achieve better results in school, and more skilled Managing psychological stress.

The pioneering studies conducted by psychologist Michael at Stanford University in California and then at Columbia University in New York have had a profound impact on the professional and popular perception of patience, its origins and role in our lives.

Author Dorsa Amir said in a report published in Australian magazine "ION" that the studies conducted in the seventies and eighties indicate some deep individual characteristics and personality traits that prepare children for greater achievements throughout life.

The relationship between the environment and our personality
When studying the relationship between the environment and the characteristics of our personality, researchers face two major challenges. The first challenge casts doubts on the way we see personality traits - fixed patterns of behavior over time - being part of our identities. People are the products of genes interacting with the environment, but the psychologist Nick Haslam at the University of Melbourne and others From researchers, they see personality traits as more stable.

In other words, you might say that your friend is a patient person and will always be so even in a dangerous situation where there is no guarantee, rather, patience is a concept that stems from within and not from the world around us.

The second challenge revolves around the people who psychologists have studied in the past century. Although scientists know a good amount of how personality traits develop, it is derived from research conducted on a group of those who live in industrial societies.

The strangest people in the world
According to a study known as "The Strangest People in the World" published in 2010, anthropologist Joseph Heinrich and his team at the University of British Columbia showed that approximately 96% of psychology topics come from what is known as "Werd societies," meaning educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic Western societies.

Bias towards societies is presented as a problem for several reasons. First: Because people in these societies represent an unparalleled choice for non-developed societies, developed countries constitute only 12% of the world's population.

The author recently collaborated with her colleagues to design a study concerned with two features: the extent of a person’s patience, and how tolerant they are of uncertainty. The research included four different societies: India, the United States, Argentina, and the indigenous children of Chouar who lived in Ecuador’s Amazon.

The Shawar communities that I visited were secluded, and a boat ride across the Morona River was the only way to reach, and the neighborhood maintains a traditional lifestyle, relying on wild hunting, garden crops and fishing, and industrial goods are not considered important for their lifestyle.

The research team used a similar "Marshmallow Test" experiment to measure children's ability to patience, which is given to children between the ages of 4 and 18 to choose between getting one piece of candy today, or taking more than one piece if they are ready to wait for a day, and if they are able to patience They will get a great deal of sweets the next day.

According to this experience, they found many differences, as children in the United States, Argentina, and India behaved similarly, as they tended to be patient and tolerant towards their uncertainty, while Al-Shawar showed a very different pattern of behavior. They were impatient, so most of them did not choose the perilous cyst.

In a follow-up study the following year, they found that Chorus children who live near cities behave like Americans unlike Chorus children in rainforests, and it seems that living near cities or industrial societies contributes to shaping children's behavior.

Manufacturing and behavior development
Industrialization is an influential force in the development of behavior, and it is important to understand its legacy in the human story. The emergence of agriculture 10 thousand years ago is considered the deepest transformation in the history of human life, as people no longer depend on hunting and gathering fruits to survive, but they formed more complex societies with innovations that included new ways to assemble Storage and circulation of resources.

As a result, markets have changed our perceptions of affordability. In “resource-bearing societies” that have the resources, children feel they can afford to be patient and look for risks better, and if they are not lucky and they don't win any candy, then that's fine, it did not cost them Much.

As for the children of the Shuar in the rainforest - who have less resources than other societies - losing the candy is a problem, because they prefer to avoid the risks.

Over time, these successful strategies can become frequent strategies to interact with our world. For example, people who live in an environment where waiting costs are high may be impatient.

The "Big Five" model of personality change
Studies support the idea that personality is formed through the environment, and while working among the indigenous people of Tesman in Bolivia with anthropologists from the University of California Santa Barbara found little support for the so-called "Big Five" model of personality change which consists of openness to experience, conscience, extrovert, consent, and neuroscience .

Anthropologist Paul Smaldino of the University of California at Merced and his collaborators followed the findings and their relationship to changes spurred by industrialization, and they see that the more complex societies become, the more social and professional roles evolve.

The different personality traits in some roles are more successful than others, and the more roles, the more diverse the personality.

These studies indicate that our environments can affect our personality deeply, and enable us to understand better what makes us aware of who we are.