Chance encounters follow probabilistic patterns shaped by environment and disposition

Evidence

Most fortuitous events leave people untouched, others have some lasting effects, and still others send them into new trajectories of life. A science of psychology cannot foretell the occurrence of fortuitous intersects, except that personal proclivities, the types of settings in which one travels, and the types of people who populate those settings make some types of intersects more probable than others. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 149

Categorization

• SEED: Essays: ‘You make your own luck — probabilistically’ — the disposition-meets-setting account of fortune overlaps with network theory and the ‘where you live determines your life path’ literature.