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The Questionnaire

These are the 240 items of the IPIP-HEXACO inventory (see methodology) actually sent to each model, grouped by domain and facet. Every item is shown in the original English wording — the same text the models are asked to rate — since that's what was actually administered. Items marked "reverse-keyed" are scored in the opposite direction (6 − raw).

H · Honesty-Humility

Sincerity

  1. Don't pretend to be more than I am
  2. Use flattery to get aheadreverse-keyed
  3. Tell other people what they want to hear so that they will do what I want them to doreverse-keyed
  4. Put on a show to impress peoplereverse-keyed
  5. Switch my loyalties when I feel like itreverse-keyed
  6. Play a role in order to impress peoplereverse-keyed
  7. Pretend to be concerned for othersreverse-keyed
  8. Act like different people in different situationsreverse-keyed
  9. Find it necessary to please the people who have powerreverse-keyed
  10. Let people push me around to help them feel importantreverse-keyed

Fairness

  1. Would never take things that aren't mine
  2. Would never cheat on my taxes
  3. Return extra change when a cashier makes a mistake
  4. Would feel very badly for a long time if I were to steal from someone
  5. Try to follow the rules
  6. Admire a really clever scamreverse-keyed
  7. Cheat to get aheadreverse-keyed
  8. Steal thingsreverse-keyed
  9. Cheat on people who have trusted mereverse-keyed
  10. Would not regret my behavior if I were to take advantage of someone impulsivelyreverse-keyed

Greed Avoidance

  1. Would not enjoy being a famous celebrity
  2. Don't strive for elegance in my appearance
  3. Love luxuryreverse-keyed
  4. Have a strong need for powerreverse-keyed
  5. Seek statusreverse-keyed
  6. Am mainly interested in moneyreverse-keyed
  7. Wish to stay young foreverreverse-keyed
  8. Try to impress othersreverse-keyed
  9. Prefer to eat at expensive restaurantsreverse-keyed
  10. Am out for my own personal gainreverse-keyed

Modesty

  1. Don't think that I'm better than other people
  2. See myself as an average person
  3. Am just an ordinary person
  4. Consider myself an average person
  5. Would like to have more power than other peoplereverse-keyed
  6. Believe that I am better than othersreverse-keyed
  7. Like to attract attentionreverse-keyed
  8. Am more capable than most othersreverse-keyed
  9. Am likely to show off if I get the chancereverse-keyed
  10. Boast about my virtuesreverse-keyed

E · Emotionality

Fearfulness

  1. Am a physical coward
  2. Begin to panic when there is danger
  3. Would fear walking in a high-crime part of a city
  4. Tremble in dangerous situations
  5. Would never go riding down a stretch of rapids in a canoe
  6. Like to do frightening thingsreverse-keyed
  7. Face danger confidentlyreverse-keyed
  8. Love dangerous situationsreverse-keyed
  9. Would be good at rescuing people from a burning buildingreverse-keyed
  10. Am willing to take risksreverse-keyed

Anxiety

  1. Often worry about things that turn out to be unimportant
  2. Worry about things
  3. Get stressed out easily
  4. Get upset by unpleasant thoughts that come into my mind
  5. Panic easily
  6. Rarely worryreverse-keyed
  7. Rarely feel depressedreverse-keyed
  8. Am not easily disturbed by eventsreverse-keyed
  9. Remain calm under pressurereverse-keyed
  10. Don't worry about things that have already happenedreverse-keyed

Dependence

  1. Need reassurance
  2. Let myself be influenced by others
  3. Need the approval of others
  4. Need protection
  5. Often need help
  6. Show my sadness
  7. Suspect that my facial expressions give me away when I feel sad
  8. Seek support
  9. Can't do without the company of others
  10. Want to be liked

Sentimentality

  1. Feel others' emotions
  2. Immediately feel sad when hearing of an unhappy event
  3. Cry during movies
  4. Am sensitive to the needs of others
  5. Am deeply moved by others' misfortunes
  6. Rarely cry during sad moviesreverse-keyed
  7. Seldom feel weepy while reading the sad part of a storyreverse-keyed
  8. Am seldom bothered by the apparent suffering of strangersreverse-keyed
  9. Don't understand people who get emotionalreverse-keyed
  10. Seldom get emotionalreverse-keyed

X · Extraversion

Expressiveness

  1. Talk a lot
  2. Am never at a loss for words
  3. Am the life of the party
  4. Tell people about it when I'm irritated
  5. Have an intense, boisterous laugh
  6. Don't talk a lotreverse-keyed
  7. Don't like to draw attention to myselfreverse-keyed
  8. Say littlereverse-keyed
  9. Bottle up my feelingsreverse-keyed
  10. Speak softlyreverse-keyed

Social Boldness

  1. Am good at making impromptu speeches
  2. Don't mind being the center of attention
  3. Feel comfortable around people
  4. Have leadership abilities
  5. Have a strong personality
  6. Would be afraid to give a speech in publicreverse-keyed
  7. Keep in the backgroundreverse-keyed
  8. Find it difficult to approach othersreverse-keyed
  9. Hate being the center of attentionreverse-keyed
  10. Have little to sayreverse-keyed

Sociability

  1. Usually like to spend my free time with people
  2. Talk to a lot of different people at parties
  3. Love to chat
  4. Make friends easily
  5. Enjoy being part of a group
  6. Seem to derive less enjoyment from interacting with people than others doreverse-keyed
  7. Rarely enjoy being with peoplereverse-keyed
  8. Would not enjoy a job that involves a lot of social interactionreverse-keyed
  9. Am hard to get to knowreverse-keyed
  10. Keep others at a distancereverse-keyed

Liveliness

  1. Maintain high energy throughout the day
  2. Have great stamina
  3. Am usually active and full of energy
  4. Smile a lot
  5. Feel healthy and vibrant most of the time
  6. Laugh a lot
  7. Feel that I have a lot of inner strength
  8. Have a lot of fun
  9. Tire out quicklyreverse-keyed
  10. Often feel bluereverse-keyed

A · Agreeableness

Forgiveness

  1. Love my enemies
  2. Try to forgive and forget
  3. Am inclined to forgive others
  4. Am nice to people I should be angry at
  5. Find it hard to forgive othersreverse-keyed
  6. Hold a grudgereverse-keyed
  7. Get back at people who insult mereverse-keyed
  8. Get even with othersreverse-keyed
  9. Distrust peoplereverse-keyed
  10. Feel that most people can't be trustedreverse-keyed

Gentleness

  1. Rarely complain
  2. Take things as they come
  3. Accept people as they are
  4. Have a good word for everyone
  5. Become frustrated and angry with people when they don't live up to my expectationsreverse-keyed
  6. Am quick to judge othersreverse-keyed
  7. Find fault with everythingreverse-keyed
  8. Speak ill of othersreverse-keyed
  9. Have a sharp tonguereverse-keyed
  10. Criticize others' shortcomingsreverse-keyed

Flexibility

  1. Adjust easily
  2. Am good at taking advice
  3. When interacting with a group of people, am often bothered by at least one of themreverse-keyed
  4. React strongly to criticismreverse-keyed
  5. Get upset if others change the way that I have arranged thingsreverse-keyed
  6. Am hard to convincereverse-keyed
  7. Am annoyed by others' mistakesreverse-keyed
  8. Can't stand being contradictedreverse-keyed
  9. Am hard to satisfyreverse-keyed
  10. Am hard to reason withreverse-keyed

Patience

  1. Find that it takes a lot to make me feel angry at someone
  2. Rarely feel angry with people
  3. Am usually a patient person
  4. Rarely get irritated
  5. Seldom get mad
  6. Am easily annoyedreverse-keyed
  7. Get angry easilyreverse-keyed
  8. Get irritated easilyreverse-keyed
  9. Lose my temperreverse-keyed
  10. Get upset easilyreverse-keyed

C · Conscientiousness

Organization

  1. Keep things tidy
  2. Get chores done right away
  3. Like order
  4. Like to tidy up
  5. Want everything to be "just right"
  6. Leave a mess in my roomreverse-keyed
  7. Leave my belongings aroundreverse-keyed
  8. Don't finish the things that I startreverse-keyed
  9. Often forget to put things back in their proper placereverse-keyed
  10. Am not bothered by disorderreverse-keyed

Diligence

  1. Push myself very hard to succeed
  2. Get started quickly on doing a job
  3. Am exacting in my work
  4. Work hard
  5. Complete tasks successfully
  6. Do just enough work to get byreverse-keyed
  7. Stop when work becomes too difficultreverse-keyed
  8. Do too little workreverse-keyed
  9. Hang around doing nothingreverse-keyed
  10. Quickly lose interest in the tasks I startreverse-keyed

Perfectionism

  1. Pay attention to details
  2. Continue until everything is perfect
  3. Have an eye for detail
  4. Want every detail taken care of
  5. Dislike imperfect work
  6. Want everything to add up perfectly
  7. Detect mistakes
  8. Demand quality
  9. Pay too little attention to detailsreverse-keyed
  10. Prefer to just let things happenreverse-keyed

Prudence

  1. Avoid mistakes
  2. Make plans and stick to them
  3. Do things according to a plan
  4. Jump into things without thinkingreverse-keyed
  5. Do things without thinking of the consequencesreverse-keyed
  6. Make rash decisionsreverse-keyed
  7. Act impulsively when something is bothering mereverse-keyed
  8. Make careless mistakesreverse-keyed
  9. Don't know why I do some of the things I doreverse-keyed
  10. Make a fool of myselfreverse-keyed

O · Openness

Aesthetic Appreciation

  1. Believe in the importance of art
  2. Get deeply immersed in music
  3. See beauty in things that others might not notice
  4. Enjoy feeling "close to the earth"
  5. Have read the great literary classics
  6. Do not like artreverse-keyed
  7. Seldom notice the emotional aspects of paintings and picturesreverse-keyed
  8. Do not like poetryreverse-keyed
  9. Do not like concertsreverse-keyed
  10. Do not enjoy watching dance performancesreverse-keyed

Inquisitiveness

  1. Am interested in science
  2. Would love to explore strange places
  3. Enjoy intellectual games
  4. Love to read challenging material
  5. Find political discussions interesting
  6. Have a rich vocabulary
  7. Don't know much about historyreverse-keyed
  8. Avoid difficult reading materialreverse-keyed
  9. Don't bother worrying about political and social problemsreverse-keyed
  10. Will not probe deeply into a subjectreverse-keyed

Creativity

  1. Have a vivid imagination
  2. Come up with something new
  3. Carry the conversation to a higher level
  4. Am full of ideas
  5. Love to think up new ways of doing things
  6. Have excellent ideas
  7. Do not have a good imaginationreverse-keyed
  8. Have difficulty imagining thingsreverse-keyed
  9. Have trouble guessing how others will reactreverse-keyed
  10. Seldom experience sudden intuitive insightsreverse-keyed

Unconventionality

  1. Am considered to be kind of eccentric
  2. Know that my ideas sometimes surprise people
  3. Do things that others find strange
  4. Rebel against authority
  5. Swim against the current
  6. Would hate to be considered odd or strangereverse-keyed
  7. Enjoy being thought of as a normal "mainstream" personreverse-keyed
  8. Like to be viewed as proper and conventionalreverse-keyed
  9. Like to be thought of as a normal kind of personreverse-keyed
  10. Try to avoid complex peoplereverse-keyed