Michael C Ashton

Biographic Data

ID91074
NAMEMichael C Ashton
GIVEN NAMESMichael C
FAMILY NAMEAshton
SIGNATUREASHTON M C
AFFILIATIONSBrock University
ORCID0000-0003-4711-8199
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS649
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX13

  • Self/spouse agreement, similarity, and assumed similarity in the Hexaco personality factors

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C Ashton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2026References: 15

    We examined self/spouse agreement, similarity, and assumed (i.e., perceived) similarity in personality between spouses, using self- and spouse reports of the HEXACO personality variables from 451 Dutch heterosexual married couples ( N = 902; mean age 55 years; mean relationship duration 28 years). Self/spouse agreement correlations averaged about 0.70 for the factor-level scales and about 0.60 for the facet-level scales. Consistent with previous …

  • Personality/cognitive ability relations with and without the Project Talent Longitudinal Sample

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C AshtonARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2025References: 10

    A recent meta-analysis on intelligence/personality relations (Stanek & Ones, 2023) produces markedly different results from previous findings for some personality traits. For example, traits such as Industriousness, Even-temper, and Compassion were nearly as strongly associated with general intelligence as were intellect-related personality traits. Here we find that many of these associations were heavily influenced by unusual results from the ma…

  • The Hexaco Personality Space Before and After Re-Rotation to Approximate the Big Five Dimensions

    Michael C Ashton, Kibeom Lee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality Assessment2024

    We re-oriented the HEXACO personality dimensions to approximate the Big Five, using two measures of the Big Five as targets in a derivation sample and then in cross-validation samples. The HEXACO approximations of Big Five Agreeableness represented blends of HEXACO Agreeableness, Emotionality, and Honesty-Humility. The HEXACO approximations of Big Five Neuroticism represented blends of Emotionality with low Agreeableness and low Extraversion. The…

  • Self/observer agreement in personality assessment by observers’ relationship types

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Reinout E De Vries et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2024Cited by: 2References: 17

    We examined two forms of self/observer agreement (correlational and mean-level) in personality using a Dutch university student sample ( N =5,405) with self-reports and observer (informant) reports from parents, siblings, friends, and partners/spouses. Correlational self/observer agreement was strong across all HEXACO-PI-R scales and across relationship types ( r ̄ ≥ 0.59, but highest for partners). Regarding mean-level self/observer agreement, a…

  • Does higher H Mean Less BS? Relations of a Misleading Communication Style with the Hexaco personality factors

    Open AccessMichael C Ashton, Kibeom Lee et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

  • A South Korean study of age trends in Hexaco-PI-R self-reports

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C AshtonARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2023Cited by: 2References: 7

  • A practitioner action research approach to learning outside the classroom in religious education: Developing a dialogical model through reflection by teachers and faith field visitors

    Open AccessDavid Lundie, Waqaus Ali et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Religious…2022

    This paper reports the co-creation of knowledge through a Practitioner Action Research Community of Practice of teachers and mid-level policy enactors which sought to engage the question of how to enhance Religious Education in primary schools serving socially disadvantaged children. Co-authors’ professional values and assumptions are explored, and questions developed to carry out a needs assessment of primary teachers in contexts of social disad…

  • Who tells prosocial lies? A Hexaco model investigation

    Open AccessAmy A Paul, Kibeom Lee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2022Cited by: 1References: 14

  • On the relations between Hexaco agreeableness (versus anger) and honesty‐humility

    Open AccessMichael C Ashton, Kibeom LeeARTICLEScandinavian Journal of Psychology2021

    The HEXACO personality factors of Agreeableness‐versus‐Anger (A) and Honesty‐Humility (H) are interpreted as two complementary aspects of reciprocal altruistic tendency. Here we consider several ways of representing the positive associations between the defining traits of A and of H, through common factor analysis of self‐report HEXACO Personality Inventory—Revised (HEXACO‐PI‐R) facet scale scores ( N ≈ 111,000). We describe orthogonal solutions …

  • Sex differences in Hexaco personality characteristics across countries and ethnicities

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C AshtonARTICLEJournal of Personality2020

    OBJECTIVE: We examined sex differences in the HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (HEXACO-PI-R) factor- and facet-level scales and the associations of national sex differences in those scales with national characteristics such as wealth and gender equality. METHOD: HEXACO-PI-R self-reports were collected online from persons in 48 countries (N = 347,192). RESULTS: (1) Women averaged substantially higher than men in Emotionality and in Honesty-Hum…

  • Religiousness and the Hexaco personality factors and facets in a large online sample

    Open AccessMichael C Ashton, Kibeom LeeARTICLEJournal of Personality2019

    OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations of religiousness with personality characteristics. METHOD: We obtained self-ratings of religiousness along with self-reports on the HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised in a sample of nearly 200,000 online respondents. Respondents also indicated their religious affiliation, religiousness of upbringing, and political orientation; a subset of the respondents also indicated attitudes about immigration and forei…

  • Psychometric Properties of the Hexaco-100

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C AshtonARTICLEAssessment2018

    Psychometric properties of the 100-item English-language HEXACO Personality Inventory–Revised (HEXACO-PI-R) were examined using samples of online respondents ( N = 100,318 self-reports) and of undergraduate students ( N = 2,868 self- and observer reports). The results were as follows: First, the hierarchical structure of the HEXACO-100 was clearly supported in two principal components analyses: each of the six factors was defined by its constitue…

  • Honest People Tend to Use Less—Not More—Profanity: Comment on Feldman et al.’s (2017) Study 1

    Open AccessReinout E De Vries, Benjamin E Hilbig et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2018

    This article shows that the conclusion of Feldman et al.’s (2017) Study 1 that profane individuals tend to be honest is most likely incorrect. We argue that Feldman et al.’s conclusion is based on a commonly held but erroneous assumption that higher scores on Impression Management Scales, such as the Lie Scale, are associated with trait dishonesty. Based on evidence from studies that have investigated (1) self-other agreement on Impression Manage…

  • Is the personality—Politics link stronger for older people

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C Ashton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2018References: 14

  • Is the Dark Triad common factor distinct from low Honesty-Humility

    Open AccessGordon Hodson, Angela Book et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2018Cited by: 10References: 42

  • Acquaintanceship and self/observer agreement in personality judgment

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C AshtonARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2017Cited by: 6References: 17

  • Personality and Sexual Orientation: Extension to Asexuality and the Hexaco Model

    A F Bogaert, Michael C Ashton et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research2017Cited by: 11References: 4

    Previous research has examined self-identified sexual orientation in relation to self-reports on the Big Five personality factors. Here we extend this research by including asexuality as a fourth sexual orientation and by assessing the HEXACO personality factors, using self-report data from a large anonymous online sample (N ≈ 100,000). A large overlap was observed among all sexual orientation groups on all six HEXACO dimensions, but notable grou…

  • Age trends in Hexaco-PI-R self-reports

    Open AccessMichael C Ashton, Kibeom LeeARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2016Cited by: 13References: 24

  • The Hexaco Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and Emotionality Factors: A Review of Research and Theory

    Open AccessMichael C Ashton, Kibeom Lee et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2014

    We review research and theory on the HEXACO personality dimensions of Honesty-Humility (H), Agreeableness (A), and Emotionality (E), with particular attention to the following topics: (1) the origins of the HEXACO model in lexical studies of personality structure, and the content of the H, A, and E factors in those studies; (2) the operationalization of the H, A, and E factors in the HEXACO Personality Inventory–Revised; (3) the construct validit…

  • Do prosocial people prefer sweet-tasting foods? An attempted replication of Meier, Moeller, Riemer-Peltz, and Robinson (2012)

    Open AccessMichael C Ashton, Alyssa C Pilkington et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2014Cited by: 2References: 9

  • Sex, Power, and Money: Prediction from the Dark Triad and Honesty–Humility

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C Ashton et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Personality2013

    Data were collected from two undergraduate student samples to examine (i) the relations of the ‘Dark Triad’ variables (Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, and Narcissism) with the HEXACO personality dimensions, as well as (ii) the ability of the aforementioned characteristics and of the Big Five personality factors to predict outcome variables related to sex, power, and money. Results indicated that the common variance of the Dark Triad was very highl…

  • Prediction of self- and observer report scores on Hexaco-60 and NEO-FFI scales

    Open AccessKibeom Lee, Michael C AshtonARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2013Cited by: 7References: 16

  • On the prediction of academic performance with personality traits: A replication study

    Open AccessSampo V Paunonen, Michael C AshtonARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2013Cited by: 3References: 10

  • Profiling the “Pro‐Environmental Individual”: A Personality Perspective

    Open AccessEzra M Markowitz, Lewis R Goldberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2012

    There is considerable scientific interest in the psychological correlates of pro‐environmental behaviors. Much research has focused on demographic and social‐psychological characteristics of individuals who consistently perform such actions. Here, we report the results of 2 studies in which we explored relations between broad personality traits and pro‐environmental actions. Using a wide variety of behavior and personality measures, we consistent…

  • Is Low Anxiety Part of the Psychopathy Construct

    Open AccessBeth A Visser, Michael C Ashton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2012

    Low anxiety has traditionally been considered a feature of psychopathy, but there has been mixed research support for this conceptualization. We investigated the PPI‐R‐SF S tress I mmunity subscale (a measure of low anxiety) in relation to 2 widely used self‐report psychopathy scales in a sample of 346 undergraduate students. Results indicated that PPI‐R‐SF S tress I mmunity was nearly unrelated to other indicators of psychopathy, showing a near‐…