• Question: Does your eye colour affect your personality?

    Asked by to Aimee, Chris, Dave, Greig, Laurence on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Greig Cowan

      Greig Cowan answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Hi! No, I don’t think your eye colour can have a role in your personality. I know plenty of people who have similar personalities but have different eye colours! I can believe that your eye colour has a role in how other people perceive your personality but I don’t think this has anything to do with your actual personality. For example, if you have green eyes then someone might think you are mysterious but unless you actually start trying to conform to these perceptions then I don’t think eye colour will influence your personality directly.

    • Photo: Aimee Hopper

      Aimee Hopper answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      No, it wouldn’t. Eye colour is not in any way linked to the behavioural parts of your brain, and so cannot affect your personality directly.

    • Photo: Laurence Perreault Levasseur

      Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Nope! I’m not a geneticist, pretty sure it doesn’t! Eye colour comes from your genes (previously scientists thought it was a single gene, but recently it was discovered that many genes -at least 2- enter in determining eye colour), while personality, although not well-understood, has a lot to do with life experiences in addition to genes (you can see that from identical twins who look the same, have the same eye colour, but they can have very different personalities!!)

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      Dave Jones answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Probably not. Personality is probably much more to do with your experiences and how you are brought up by your parents, while your eye colour is down to your genes. However, there might be a very small part of your personality which comes from your genes and those genes might also be linked to the genes for eye colour. So while most of your personality won’t be related to your eye colour, a very small part of it could be because that part would be due to your genes too.

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