Honesty-Humility, Beliefs, and Prosocial Behaviour: A Test on Stockpiling During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Increasing evidence links personality to prosocial behaviour. HEXACO Honesty-Humility, in particular, has been linked behaviour when it comes with a personal cost. Yet, for such link is mostly limited the laboratory, although social dilemmas abound daily life. Emergencies as COVID-19 pandemic pose salient conflicts of interests between individual and societal welfare. One example run on many basic goods anticipation lockdowns. Such afford expression traits associated differences Indeed, across two studies (N = 601), Honesty-Humility was positively, albeit weakly refraining from stockpiling past intentions do so future. Causal mediation analysis shows that this not due beliefs others would refrain stockpiling. Instead, results suggest faced dilemma, individuals high may have willing forego benefit. This provides rare relationship field setting.