The H factor of personality

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

2012

x, 201 p.

Bibliogr.: p. 191–201

9781554588343

Contents: Meet the H factor ; The missing link of personality psychology ; HEXACO: the six dimensions of personality ; A field guide to low-H people ; Can you tell someone's level of H? ; Do high-H people flock together? ; Politics ; Religion ; Money, power, and sex ; How to identify low-H people, and how to live around them

The «Big Five» personality dimensions widely recognized by Western psychologists: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience. Through their own research, Lee and Ashton discovered a sixth personality dimension, Honesty-Humility. Those with high levels of the H factor are sincere and modest, those with low levels are deceitful and pretentious. Lee and Ashton describe the concept of personality dimensions; their discovery of the H factor; characteristics of high and low H factor individuals; and the role H factor levels play in aspects of people's lives, from their interpersonal relationships to attitudes toward power, politics, money, and religion.

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