A comprehensive de$nition of Honesty, as a human characteristic, should re&ect not only a set of specific behaviors, but also a set of goals. Previous studies connecting personality and goals focused primarily on Big Five traits, which do not encompass honesty, thus the motivational underpinnings of honesty are currently unexplored. "e aim of this study was thus to identify a set of goals related to di#erent aspects of this trait. First, adopting a psycho-lexical approach and expert judgement, we identi$ed a set of 30 adjectives (out of an initial pool of 122) describing behaviors relevant for honesty and its facets. Second, we asked 250 participants to write goals that they ascribed to behaviors described by each adjective. "e resulting corpus included 9000 responses and was analyzed relying on a combination of natural language processing, independent-rater judgment, network analysis, and clustering techniques. As a result, we identifed the major goals related to (dis)honesty and its facets, as well as a set of main features of each goal. Having available a taxonomy of goals related to honesty is crucial to develop assessment of the motivational bases of honesty, as well as to implement paradigms aimed at elucidating the motivational processes of this trait.
Galkina, A., Amenta, S., Zarbo, C., Perugini, M., Costantini, G. (2022). Exploring the motivational corer of honesty as a personality trait. In Book of Abstract 30º Congresso dell’ Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (pp.1588-1588).
Exploring the motivational corer of honesty as a personality trait
Galkina A.;Amenta S.;Perugini M.;Costantini G
2022
Abstract
A comprehensive de$nition of Honesty, as a human characteristic, should re&ect not only a set of specific behaviors, but also a set of goals. Previous studies connecting personality and goals focused primarily on Big Five traits, which do not encompass honesty, thus the motivational underpinnings of honesty are currently unexplored. "e aim of this study was thus to identify a set of goals related to di#erent aspects of this trait. First, adopting a psycho-lexical approach and expert judgement, we identi$ed a set of 30 adjectives (out of an initial pool of 122) describing behaviors relevant for honesty and its facets. Second, we asked 250 participants to write goals that they ascribed to behaviors described by each adjective. "e resulting corpus included 9000 responses and was analyzed relying on a combination of natural language processing, independent-rater judgment, network analysis, and clustering techniques. As a result, we identifed the major goals related to (dis)honesty and its facets, as well as a set of main features of each goal. Having available a taxonomy of goals related to honesty is crucial to develop assessment of the motivational bases of honesty, as well as to implement paradigms aimed at elucidating the motivational processes of this trait.
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