Personality and behavioral dishonesty

BE Hilbig - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
The past two decades have seen major developments in the study of behavioral (dis)
honesty and its measurement as well as a surge of interest in the location of trait honesty …

Age and workplace deviance: A meta-analytic test and a trait-based examination of why older employees engage in less workplace deviance

JL Pletzer, JK Oostrom… - Work, Aging and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the current meta-analysis, we examine the relation between age and workplace deviance,
and find a small but significant negative correlation (ρ¯=−. 124, k= 198). More importantly …

Generalized dispositional distrust as the common core of populism and conspiracy mentality

I Thielmann, BE Hilbig - Political Psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Populism and beliefs in conspiracy theories fuel societal division as both rely on a
Manichean us‐versus‐them, good‐versus‐evil narrative. However, whether both constructs …

How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.

M Moshagen, BE Hilbig, I Zettler - Journal of Personality and Social …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Political orientation reflects beliefs, opinions, and values that are, at least in part, rooted in
stable interindividual differences. Whereas evidence has accumulated with regard to the …

Unselfish traits and social decision-making patterns characterize six populations of real-world extraordinary altruists

SA Rhoads, KM Vekaria, K O'Connell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acts of extraordinary, costly altruism, in which significant risks or costs are assumed to
benefit strangers, have long represented a motivational puzzle. But the features that …

Making rights from wrongs: The crucial role of beliefs and justifications for the expression of aversive personality.

BE Hilbig, M Moshagen, I Thielmann… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Whereas research focusing on stable dispositions has long attributed ethically and socially
aversive behavior to an array of aversive (or “dark”) traits, other approaches from social …

Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness

E Altgassen, M Geiger… - European Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Mindfulness is defined inconsistently, and its various measures resemble established
personality self-report scales. Therefore, jingle and jangle fallacies are likely to undermine …

Most people's life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data.

R Mõttus, A Realo, J Allik, L Ausmees… - Journal of Personality …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite numerous meta-analyses, the true extent to which life satisfaction reflects
personality traits has remained unclear due to overreliance on a single method to assess …

Ten steps toward a better personality science–how quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation

D Leising, I Thielmann, A Glöckner… - Personality …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This target article is part of a theme bundle including open peer commentaries (https://doi.
org/10.5964/ps. 9227) and a rejoinder by the authors (https://doi. org/10.5964/ps. 7961). We …

Cheating to benefit others? On the relation between Honesty‐Humility and prosocial lies

I Thielmann, BE Hilbig, SA Klein, A Seidl… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Among basic personality traits, Honesty‐Humility yields the most consistent,
negative link with dishonest behavior. The theoretical conceptualization of Honesty …