The H Factor of Personality

Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters for Everyone

Kibeom Lee, Michael C. Ashton

• Editore: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Anno: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781554588640
• Argomento: Psychology
• Categoria: Personality in Psychology

People who have high levels of H are sincere and modest; people who have low levels are deceitful and pretentious. The "H" in the H factor stands for "Honesty-Humility, " one of the six basic dimensions of the human personality.

It isn't intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility go hand in hand, and until very recently the H factor hadn't been recognized as a basic dimension of personality. But scientific evidence shows that traits of honesty and humility form a unified group of personality traits, separate from those of the other five groups identified several decades ago.

This book, written by the discoverers of the H factor, explores the scientific findings that show the importance of this personality dimension in various aspects of people's lives: their approaches to money, power, and sex; their inclination to commit crimes or obey the law; their attitudes about society, politics, and religion; and their choice of friends and spouse. Finally, the book provides ways of identifying people who are low in the H factor, as well as advice on how to raise one's own level of H.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Boxes
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Meet the H Factor
• 2 The Missing Link of Personality Psychology
• 3 HEXACO: The Six Dimensions of Personality
• 4 A Field Guide to Low-H People
• 5 Can You Tell Someone’s Level of H?
• 6 Do High-H People Flock Together?
• 7 Politics
• 8 Religion
• 9 Money, Power, and Sex
• 10 How to Identify Low-H People—and How to Live Around Them
• Epilogue: On Becoming a High-H Person
• Appendix: The HEXACO Personality Inventory—Revised
• Notes
• References