European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Belief in Blind Luck nothing to do with heredity by Arthur Max associated press some people Are born with the belief that they Are masters of their own lives. Others feel they Are at the mercy of Fate. New research shows that some of those feelings Are in the genes. Two researchers who questioned hundreds of swedish twins report that Confidence or Lack of it. Is partly genetic and partly drawn from experience. They also found that the belief in Blind Luck that coincidence plays a big role in life a is something Learned and has nothing to do with heredity. The research was conducted at the Karolinsky Institute in Stockholm which annually awards the Nobel prize for Medicine by Karolinsky s Nancy Pedersen and Margaret Gatz a psychology professor at the University of Southern California. Their results recently were published in the United states in the journal of gerontology. The study of twins who have identical or similar genes eliminates genetics As the explanation of differences said Richard a Rose professor of psychology and medical genetics at Indiana University. Variances in twins must then be attributed to their distinct environment and experiences. The result of the Gatz Pedersen study a is consistent with other world literature on the subject Quot but has the added importance of being based on a far larger and More representative Sample than previous research Rose said. Quot the belief in your ability to control your life direction or the Belef in your own competence is 30 percent something you Are born with Quot said Gatz interviewed during a consultation visit to Sweden. Psychologists Long have known that people confident in their ability to control their destinies Are More Likely to adjust Well to growing old than others and the new study seemed to provide some of the evidence to Back that up. People who Are confident of their ability to control their lives have an Quot internal locus of control Quot and a better Chance of being Well adjusted in old age said Pedersen. An Quot external locus of control Quot believing that outside forces determine the course of life has been linked to a amps Cut Schuz itly a new psychological research on twins confirms that environment and experiences heavily affect Peoples inborn predilection toward Independence and self Confidence. Depression in later years she said. Quot this is one of the windows on the aging process Quot said Pedersen who has also published a series of studies on the genetics of personality traits based on interviews with twins. The new study on life control involved 554 pairs of twins Quot we Are trying to understand what makes people different. What makes some people age gracefully and others have a More difficult time Quot she said. The study showed that while people have an inborn predilection toward Independence and self Confidence about 70 percent of this personality trait is affected by a person s environment and experiences. Pedersen a studies with various collaborators probe the aging process by comparing sets of twins identical and fraternal Many of whom were separated at an Early age. The subjects were drawn from a roster first compiled about 30 years ago registering All twins born in Sweden since 1886. The Complete list which was extended in -1971, has 95,000 sets of twins. Rose said the registry based on the whole population is Quot an unusually powerful  u s researchers have nothing comparable and normally rely on twins who respond to advertisements Karolinsky professor Anders Ahlborn who runs the registry said 80 percent to 85 percent of twins typically respond to questionnaires sent by researchers Pedersen said that studies of twins who were reared separately but have identical or nearly identical genes compared with twins reared together can yield a unique measure of nature is nurture in human development earlier research by Pedersen showed that a variety of other characteristics Are 30 percent to 40 percent determined by a persons genetic makeup including Many of those traits comprising what has become known As Type a behaviour. 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