
The H Factor of Personality
Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters for Everyone
- 212 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
The H Factor of Personality
Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters for Everyone
About this book
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.Â
 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.
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Table of contents
- 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