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Honesty-Humility

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Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

Synonyms

Active cooperation; Honesty; Honesty-propriety; Humility; Modesty

Definition

Honesty-humility is a basic personality trait representing “the tendency to be fair and genuine in dealing with others, in the sense of cooperation with others even when one might exploit others without suffering retaliation” (Ashton and Lee 2007, p. 156).

Introduction

According to the HEXACO Model of Personality (Ashton and Lee 2007; Ashton et al. 2014), Honesty-Humility (HH) is one of the six basic personality traits. HH represents “the tendency to be fair and genuine in dealing with others, in the sense of cooperation with others even when one might exploit others without suffering retaliation” (Ashton and Lee 2007, p. 156), encompassing attributes such as being fair-minded, honest, modest, sincere, etc. versus boastful, deceitful, greedy, hypocritical, etc. (Lee and Ashton 2008). In line with these descriptions, HH has especially been linked to a broad array of variables in the realm of anti- and...

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jie Liu & Ingo Zettler

  2. Department of Psychology, Campus Landau, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany

    Benjamin E. Hilbig

  3. Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany

    Benjamin E. Hilbig

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Liu, J., Zettler, I., Hilbig, B.E. (2016). Honesty-Humility. 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_1228-1

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