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The six HEXACO dimensions

HEXACO is a six-dimension model of personality built from the same lexical research the Big Five came out of — with one dimension the Big Five never separated out. Every dimension below is described from both ends, because both ends are real dispositions with real advantages, and a personality app that only flatters one end is not measuring anything.

HEXACO vs the Big Five

Five of the six map closely onto the Big Five: Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Openness carry over almost unchanged, while HEXACO's Emotionality and Agreeableness redistribute what the Big Five calls Neuroticism and Agreeableness. The sixth, Honesty-Humility, is genuinely new — sincerity, fairness, greed avoidance and modesty — and it is the reason the model exists. It predicts things the Big Five is blind to, and it is the dimension people most dislike being measured on.

H

Honesty-Humility

How much the game of status, image, and advantage pulls at you, and how willing you are to play it. There is no right end here: one is content to go unnoticed, the other is built to compete.

  • Sincerity
  • Fairness
  • Greed Avoidance
  • Modesty

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E

Emotionality

How strongly fear, worry, and attachment run through you. One end feels life at full volume and stays close to people; the other stays level when things turn dangerous.

  • Fearfulness
  • Anxiety
  • Dependence
  • Sentimentality

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X

Extraversion

Where your energy comes from around other people — whether a full room charges you or spends you. It sets your natural volume, not your worth.

  • Expressiveness
  • Social Boldness
  • Sociability
  • Liveliness

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A

Agreeableness

How you handle other people's flaws and friction: forgive or remember, soften it or say it sharp, yield or hold your ground.

  • Forgiveness
  • Gentleness
  • Flexibility
  • Patience

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C

Conscientiousness

Order, follow-through, and the gap between impulse and action. One end runs on systems, the other on the energy of the moment.

  • Organization
  • Diligence
  • Perfectionism
  • Prudence

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O

Openness

Your appetite for the unfamiliar — ideas, art, strange places, new ways of doing things. One end explores; the other deepens what it already has.

  • Aesthetic Appreciation
  • Inquisitiveness
  • Creativity
  • Unconventionality

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Where you land on the 1–5 scale — no percentiles, no comparison to anyone else.

Find out where you actually stand.

Five minutes for the assessment. 7 days free after that.

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iPhone · iOS 17 or later