TY - JOUR
T1 - It takes two: Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness differentially predict active versus reactive cooperation
AU - Hilbig, B.E.
AU - Zettler, Ingo
AU - Leist, F.
AU - Heydasch, T.
PY - 2013/4/1
Y1 - 2013/4/1
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871821609&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.11.008
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.11.008
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84871821609
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 54
SP - 598
EP - 603
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 5
ER -