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Published 16:30 5 Feb 2017 GMT
Updated 18:10 5 Feb 2017 GMT

"Our finding, that personality traits are 'contagious' among children, flies in the face of common assumptions that personality is ingrained and can't be changed. This is important because some personality traits can help children succeed in life, while others can hold them back."Associate professor of psychology and co-investigator Emily Durbin says children have a bigger effect on each other than adults realise,
"Parents spend a lot of their time trying to teach their child to be patient, to be a good listener, not to be impulsive. But this wasn't their parents or their teachers affecting them - it was their friends. It turns out that three- and four-year-olds are being change agents."Join the conversation on Twitter @HerFamilydotie
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