Major personality traits and regulations of social behavior: cheaters are not the same as the reckless, and you need to know who you're dealing with

Fiddick, Laurence, Brase, Gary L., Ho, Ai Tee, Kai, Hiraishi, Honma, Atsushi, and Smith, Adam (2016) Major personality traits and regulations of social behavior: cheaters are not the same as the reckless, and you need to know who you're dealing with. Journal of Research in Personality, 62. pp. 6-18.

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Abstract

This research explores the hypothesis that major personality traits are systematically associated with social regulation response tendencies. Specifically, the adaptive function of specific traits from 'Big-Five' and HEXACO models were evaluated in terms of how they are understood and utilized in predicting the behaviors of others. Big-Five factors of agreeableness and conscientiousness track tendencies to obey or break social contract and precautionary rules, but not discriminatively nor as predicted. HEXACO traits, however, provided discriminative patterns of associations between personality and response tendencies (within individuals and for third-person associations, cross-culturally) in greater accord with previous work. Honesty–humility is associated with social contract behaviors and conscientiousness is associated with precaution behaviors, consistent with conceptualizations as psychological adaptations for tracking fitness-relevant individual differences.

Item ID: 43513
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1095-7251
Keywords: personality traits; human reasoning; social regulations; HEXACO; big five; social contract reasoning; precautions
Funders: Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Date Deposited: 28 Jul 2016 05:39
FoR Codes: 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520503 Personality and individual differences @ 100%
SEO Codes: 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences @ 100%
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