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

The relationship between physician humility, physician–patient communication, and patient health

“…Humble individuals are more likely to help a peer in need [6], more generous with their time and money [7], and more cooperative and less selfish in economic games [8,9] than less humble individuals.…”

Exploiting opportunities at all cost? Entrepreneurial intent and externalities

“…This new factor relates to fairness and greed. Recently, this sixth trait has been empirically shown to be associated with benevolent behavior in dictator games (Hilbig & Zettler, 2009). This study investigates the correlations between benevolence, on the one hand, and entrepreneurial intentions, as well as entrepreneurial and general self-efficacy, on the other hand.…”

“…While empirical entrepreneurship literature provides many insights into various personality traits, which includes openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism (representing the "Big Five": John & Srivastava, 1999;applied to entrepreneurship by, e.g., Zhao et al, 2010;Gruber, in press), there is a research gap with respect to fairness, honesty, and benevolence. Benevolence is a personality trait that in recent personality research emerged as a sixth important trait, next to the "Big Five" (Ashton & Lee, 2007;Hilbig & Zettler, 2009). Weitzel et al's (2010) findings…”

CEO Humility: Development of an Unobtrusive Measure and Strategic Implications

“…Most of the research on humility in the workplace has focused on its impact on decision-making and cooperative behaviors. For example, using students and lower level employees samples, humility was found to be positively related with fair decision making (Hilbig & Zettler, 2009) and prosocial behaviors (Exline & Geyer, 2004). Using a semiexperimental study, Hilbig and Zettler (2009) found that individuals who score high on the honesty-humility scale tended to act in a more cooperative fashion -they chose solutions that were fair for all, even when they could have defected without fearing negative consequences.…”

“…For example, using students and lower level employees samples, humility was found to be positively related with fair decision making (Hilbig & Zettler, 2009) and prosocial behaviors (Exline & Geyer, 2004). Using a semiexperimental study, Hilbig and Zettler (2009) found that individuals who score high on the honesty-humility scale tended to act in a more cooperative fashion -they chose solutions that were fair for all, even when they could have defected without fearing negative consequences. Similarly, Hillbig, Zettler, Leist, and Heydasch (2013) found honestly-humility to be related to active cooperation, that is, "the tendency to be fair and genuine in dealing with others, in the sense of cooperating with others even when one might exploit them without suffering retaliation" (Ashton & Lee, 2007, p. 156).…”