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Ashton, Michael C.

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Early Life and Educational Background

Ashton was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1970. He received his PhD in Psychology in 1998 from the University of Western Ontario, where he was supervised by Douglas N. Jackson and Sampo V. Paunonen. Ashton has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Brock University since 1999.

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In collaboration with Kibeom Lee, Ashton developed the HEXACO model of personality structure and constructed the HEXACO Personality Inventory – Revised (HEXACO-PI-R).

This line of research began with findings from lexical studies of personality structure as conducted in various languages. Those cross-cultural findings suggested the existence of six major personality dimensions, which Lee and Ashton called the HEXACO personality factors: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience.

In related work, Ashton and Lee have offered explanations of the adaptive trade-offs associated with...

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  1. Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

    Michael Ashton

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

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Ashton, M. (2017). Ashton, Michael C.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1203-2

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1203-2

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