Pillars of cooperation: Honesty-Humility, social value orientations, and economic behavior

B.E. Hilbig, Ingo Zettler

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Abstract

The current work explores the predictive power of the recently proposed sixth personality dimension, Honesty-Humility, with respect to economic and cooperative behavior. It was expected that this factor should explain how decision makers allocate a valued good to themselves vs. another in the dictator and the ultimatum game. More importantly, we predicted that Honesty-Humility would explain differences between these games in which the power of the recipient to retaliate is varied. Both conjectures were corroborated in a semi-experimental study with N = 134 participants: individuals low in Honesty-Humility made more selfish decisions and only shifted towards a more fair allocation whenever the other was empowered to punish defection. Those high in Honesty-Humility, on the other hand, displayed a stable tendency for choosing a more fair solution - even when they could have defected without fearing consequences. Finally, social value orientations were shown to partially mediate the effects found.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Research in Personality
Vol/bind43
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)516-519
Antal sider4
ISSN0092-6566
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 jun. 2009

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