Disgust sensitivity and the HEXACO model of personality

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• 作者：Joshua M. Tybur ; Reinout E. de Vries
• 关键词：HEXACO ; Big Five ; Disgust sensitivity ; Evolutionary psychology
• 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：55
• 期：6
• 页码：660-665
• 全文大小：258 K

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In the current investigation, we test for relationships between three domains of disgust sensitivity (pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust) and the six dimensions of the HEXACO personality model in a large, demographically diverse Dutch sample. Our results extend upon previous investigations into the relationship between disgust sensitivity and personality in two important ways. First, in contrast with most previous investigations into disgust sensitivity, we measure sensitivities to sexual and moral disgust, two domains that elicit self-reports of disgust and facial expressions of disgust. Second, in contrast with the few investigations that have tested for relationships between sensitivities to sexual and moral disgust and Five Factor Model personality dimensions, we use the HEXACO personality model. We find that honesty-humility, a personality dimension assessed in the HEXACO model but not the Five Factor Model, accounts for unique variance in sensitivities to sexual and moral disgust, but not sensitivity to pathogen disgust. Other relationships between disgust sensitivity and personality are discussed, as are implications for understanding the fitness-relevant tradeoffs potentially underlying disgust sensitivity and personality.