The authors argue that a new six-dimensional framework for personality structure—the
HEXACO model—constitutes a viable alternative to the well-known Big Five or five-factor …

Humans are a cultural species, constantly navigating a complex web of culturally bound
practices, norms, and worldviews. This article provides a brief overview of the relatively …

In personality psychology, a taxonomy would permit researchers to study specified domains
of related personality characteristics rather than examining separately the thousands of …

Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior
in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated …

Since the first version of this chapter (John, 1990) was completed in the late 1980s, the field
of personality trait research has changed dramatically. At that time, the Big Five personality …

Factor analyses of 75 facet scales from 2 major Big Five inventories, in the Eugene-
Springfield community sample (N= 481), produced a 2-factor solution for the 15 facets in …

In a large community sample (N= 490), the Big Five were not orthogonal when modeled as
latent variables representing the shared variance of reports from 4 different informants …

Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic
and socio-political changes globally-the chaos in the world banking system and the financial …

The authors present a behavioral process model of personality that specifies explicit and
implicit aspects of the self-concept of personality as predictors of actual behavior. An …

Two studies tested the correspondence between six dimensions obtained in lexical studies
of personality structure and the proposed HEXACO personality framework. Study 1 …