Morality

Candour is separable from warmth. Blunt people can be kind, and charming people can be evasive.

High scorers are frank and dislike guile. Low scorers are comfortable with strategic presentation.

This reads as a conduct rule rather than a feeling, which is why we predict it stays roughly constant regardless of who you are dealing with.

Four public-domain statements, answered on a five-point scale. Items marked − are reverse keyed: agreeing with them counts against the trait, which is what stops agreeing with everything from producing a high score.

• -Use others for my own ends
• -Cheat to get ahead
• -Take advantage of others
• -Obstruct others' plans

Four items is not many. A facet measured this way carries real uncertainty, which is why every score on this site is reported as a range rather than a single number.

This is one of the traits asked four times over — once for each level of closeness, from your inner circle out to strangers. Our prediction for it: flat.

CONTROL. A conduct rule, applied uniformly. If this gates as much as Altruism, H1 is false.

• +I am honest with ⟨group⟩, even when it costs me.
• -I would mislead ⟨group⟩ to get what I want.
• +I keep my word to ⟨group⟩.

⟨group⟩ is replaced by each of the four closeness anchors in turn.