To boast or not to boast: Testing the humility aspect of the Honesty-Humility factor

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-16

  Hilbig, Benjamin E ^a,b   Heydasch, Timo ^c   Zettler, Ingo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON COLLECTIVE GOODS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

General mental abilities; HEXACO; Honesty Humility; Modesty; Self appraisals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901638360     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.04.033     Document Type: Article

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