Project Manager Job Descriptions. Prepared by IS&T Competency Group Last Updated 3/07 Page 5 of 5. Influencing and. Leading. Exerts strong influencing skills to impact choices on. immediate and long-term directions. Understands and effectively uses established policies and. procedures.
Cheek dimples: The myth. When some people smile, they have dimples in one or both cheeks. Other people don't have dimples. This is occasionally said to be a simple genetic trait; the myth is that dimples are controlled by one gene with two alleles, and the allele for dimples is dominant.
As with all psychological traits, differences in optimism and in pessimism are heritable. It has also been suggested that optimism could appear to be a hereditary trait because it is actually a manifestation of combined traits that are mostly heritable, like intelligence, temperament and alcoholism.