The H Factor of Personality
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The H Factor of Personality

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

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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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. 

 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

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Boxes
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1 Meet the H Factor
  6. 2 The Missing Link of Personality Psychology
  7. 3 HEXACO: The Six Dimensions of Personality
  8. 4 A Field Guide to Low-H People
  9. 5 Can You Tell Someone’s Level of H?
  10. 6 Do High-H People Flock Together?
  11. 7 Politics
  12. 8 Religion
  13. 9 Money, Power, and Sex
  14. 10 How to Identify Low-H People—and How to Live Around Them
  15. Epilogue: On Becoming a High-H Person
  16. Appendix: The HEXACO Personality Inventory—Revised
  17. Notes
  18. References