We examined HEXACO personality correlates of prosocial lying behaviors. Specifically, we adopted an experimental procedure in which participants were asked to provide an essay writer with quantitative and qualitative feedback for the person’s rather poorly written essay (Lupoli et al., 2017). From this procedure, we assessed objective prosocial lying behaviors, feedback truthfulness, and feedback kindness. Honesty-Humility showed weak but positive associations with prosocial lying behaviors and feedback kindness. HEXACO Agreeableness also correlated positively with prosocial lying behaviors and feedback kindness, and negatively with feedback truthfulness. These results suggest that unconditional aversion to lying does not constitute a core component of the Honesty-Humility construct.

我们检查了 HEXACO 人格与亲社会撒谎行为的相关性。具体来说，我们采用了一个实验程序，要求参与者为论文作者提供定量和定性的反馈，以了解该人写得相当糟糕的论文（Lupoli et al., 2017）。通过这个程序，我们评估了客观的亲社会撒谎行为、反馈的真实性和反馈的善意。诚实谦逊与亲社会的撒谎行为和反馈善意表现出微弱但积极的关联。HEXACO 宜人性也与亲社会的撒谎行为和反馈善意呈正相关，与反馈的真实性呈负相关。这些结果表明，对撒谎的无条件厌恶并不构成诚实-谦逊结构的核心组成部分。