Genetics influence human character and how well they feel about happiness, study says

happiness can't be bought with money, but British and Australian researchers recently said they have found that optimistic, cheerful personality can be inherited through genes, so happiness can be inheritedTim Bates, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh who led the study, said they found that people's well-being differed in half because of genetic differences"It's really amazing," he saidThe researchers selected nearly 1,000 identical and fraternal twins as subjectsBecause identical twins have the same genes and different identical twin genes, researchers were able to identify common genes from samples takenThey believe that these common genes can give a person a certain personality, making people naturally prone to happinessThe twins, who volunteered for study, were between the ages of 25 and 75The researchers also asked them a range of questions, including personality, anxiety and satisfaction with their livesThe researchers found that whether the twins were happy depended half on factors such as relationships,healthand occupation, while the other half depended on their personality, and that socializing, active, emotionally stable, diligent and conscientious traits made them more likely to be happy"This study shows that identical twins in a family are very similar in character and well-being, compared with half the personality and well-being of fraternal twins," Bates saidBates saidThis, he says, strongly suggests that genes have a significant effect on a person's character and well-beingThe researchers also found that cheerfulness, calmness in the event of a situation, reliable personality can make people "effectively store" happiness, when these people are stressed, "stored" happiness release, help them overcome stressBates said the findings will help to better study the pathology of depression and the reasons for the differences in well-beingThe study was published in the latest issue of the journal Psychology