Honesty-humility is a basic personality trait representing the tendency to be fair and genuine when dealing with others, in the sense of cooperating with others, even when someone might utilize them without suffering retaliation.
However, forcing the NEO-PI-R to extract separate factors for honesty and agreeableness allows experimenters to better predict social adroitness and self-monitoring.
[citation needed] Recent research has shown that the honesty-humility factor is strongly negatively correlated with the "dark triad" of personality (i.e. narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism).
Conversely, a person who is high on honesty-humility is sincere and honest in their dealings with others, concerned with obtaining a fair outcome for all parties involved, unselfish, and modest.
[8] This indicates that people high in honesty-humility are likely to be fairly reserved and level-headed individuals who do not take unnecessary risks, act on impulse or engage in dangerous or reckless behavior out of boredom.
[citation needed] Honesty-humility is also strongly negatively correlated with workplace delinquency (e.g. stealing from an employer, vandalism, absenteeism, alcohol use at work).
[13] Honesty-humility is also related to the "Sexy Seven"[14] measures of Relationship Exclusivity (e.g. faithfulness vs. adulterous) and restricted sociosexuality (willingness to engage in non-committed sexual acts).