Abstract

A questionnaire was developed to find out if people tend to think of themselves as being consistently lucky or unlucky. Information collected from 281 college students and 45 older adults indicated that some do so regard themselves. Tests involving predicting a sequence of die throws and then making the throws in the effort to match the predictions were given to the 12 "most lucky" and 12 "least lucky" Ss. Significant results were found in terms of declines in the scoring rate, but these were not related in any consistent manner to the lucky and unlucky groups.