It takes two: Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness differentially predict active versus reactive cooperation
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Recently, similar six-factor solutions have emerged in lexical studies across languages, giving rise to the HEXACO model of personality. As a core extension of its most well-known predecessor, the five-factor model, the HEXACO model distinguishes between two factors predicting complimentary aspects of prosocial behavior or, more specifically, reciprocal altruism: Honesty-Humility (the tendency toward active cooperation, i.e. non-exploitation) and Agreeableness (the tendency toward reactive cooperation, i.e. non-retaliation). However, this dissociation has not yet been tested to its full extent. To this end, we herein present re-analyses of published studies (N= 1090), showing that Honesty-Humility, but not Agreeableness, indeed predicts active cooperation. More importantly, in a new experiment (N= 410), we found a pattern of two concurrent selective associations, supporting the theoretical distinction between the two factors: Honesty-Humility (but not Agreeableness) predicted active cooperation (non-exploitation in the dictator game), whereas Agreeableness (but not Honesty-Humility) was linked to reactive cooperation (non-retaliation in the ultimatum game).
Original language | English |
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Journal | Personality and Individual Differences |
Volume | 54 |
Issue number | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 598-603 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISSN | 0191-8869 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
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