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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. The profile, the type and the whole library are free.

Coming to the App Store

iPhone · iOS 17 or later