Altruism at the ballots: Predicting political attitudes and behavior

Attitudes towards euthanasia in Iran: the role of altruism

“…This is consistent with the negative relation between altruism and ATE in our data. However, given the nature of euthanasia, where more positive perceptions of it tend to reflect a more liberal moral framework,23 the negative relation between altruism and ATE does not confirm a previous study in Germany, which reported that individuals who score higher on altruism tend to endorse more-left-wing agendas (although euthanasia was not included in that study) 24. On the other hand, a recent unpublished study by myself and colleagues on college students in the USA confirmed a negative relationship between the Euthanasia Attitude Scale (EAS) and altruism, although when the EAS was the dependent variable, altruism did not explain additional variance beyond religiosity.…”

When the cat’s away, some mice will play: A basic trait account of dishonest behavior

“…After providing consent and demographical information, participants were first asked to complete the German version of the HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised Lee & Ashton, 2006) assessing each factor with 16 items (e.g., Zettler, Hilbig, & Haubrich, 2011), displayed on the computer screen (the items can be found at hexaco.org). Next, they worked on a set of different filler-tasks (not pertinent to this investigation), lasting between 20 and 30 min in total.…”

What Is Engagement? Proactivity as the Missing Link in the HEXACO Model of Personality

“…Similarly, a single trait called engagement can be hypothesized to lie in the interstitial personality space spanned by Extraversion, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience. Whereas altruism has been thoroughly conceptualized (Ashton & Lee, , ; Ashton, Lee, & De Vries, ), operationalized (Lee & Ashton, ), and investigated (Zettler & Hilbig, ; Zettler, Hilbig, & Haubrich, ), nothing of the sort has been done with the hypothesized interstitial engagement trait. Based on Big Five/Five‐Factor Model (FFM) findings, we argue that Proactive Personality is the most prominent candidate to be called the interstitial HEXACO engagement facet.…”