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The honesty-humility factor is one of the six basic personality traits of the HEXACO model of personality. Honesty-humility is a basic personality trait representing the tendency to be fair and genuine when dealing with others, in the sense of cooperating with others, even when someone might utilize them without suffering retaliation. [1]
The honesty-humility factor has been used in a variety of studies as a measure of ethical or pro-social behavior (See Ashton and Lee (2008) [18] for further details). Low levels of the honesty-humility factor are associated with greater levels of materialism, unethical business practices and deviant sexual behavior.
One proposed alternative to the Big Five that has been developed via cross-cultural research is the HEXACO model. [19] This model builds on the research of the Big Five traits, with the novel addition of a trait named Honesty-Humility. [20]
The HEXACO model makes slight modification to the factors of the Big Five traits, but most notably it adds a sixth trait Honesty-Humility, which captures an individual's tendency towards honesty, humility, sincerity, greed-avoidance, and modesty. [2]
The honesty–humility factor from the HEXACO model of personality is used to measure sincerity, fairness, greed avoidance, and modesty. Honesty–Humility has been found to be strongly negatively correlated to the dark triad traits. [152] Likewise, all three dark triad traits are strongly negatively correlated with Honesty–Humility. [38]
[34] The inclusion of anger in the definition of HEXACO agreeableness further helps to differentiate this factor from honesty-humility. In response to offensive or transgressive actions, individuals who score low on honesty-humility tend not to respond immediately. Instead, they defer their response by planning their revenge and waiting for the ...
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The section “Honesty-Humility and the Dark Triad” mentions “Machiavellianism” but does not really add details on what that construct means. 6. Also in the section “Honesty-Humility and the Dark Triad”, I believe the paragraphs should be reversed, so that a “definition” of the Dark Triad is given first and then supported details ...