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The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People Are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive?And Why It Matters for Everyone
The H Factor of Personality Why Some People Are Manipulative SelfEntitled Materialistic and ExploitiveAnd Why It Matters for Everyone Author:Kibeom Lee, Michael C. Ashton The ?H? in the H factor stands for ?Honesty-Humility,? and it?s one of only six basic dimensions of personality. People who have high levels of H are sincere and modest; people who have low levels are deceitful and pretentious. It isn?t intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility go hand in hand, and until very recently the H factor ... more »hadn?t been recognized as a personality dimension. But scientific evidence shows that honesty and humility belong to a unified group of personality characteristics, separate from five other groups identified several decades ago. This book, written by the discoverers of the H factor, explores the importance of this personality dimension in various aspects of people?s lives: their approaches to money, power, and sex; their inclination to commit crimes or obey the law; their attitudes about society, politics, and religion; and their choice of friends and spouse. Finally, the book provides ways of identifying people who are low in the H factor, as well as advice on how to raise one?s own level of H.« less