- Psychologists originally made the same mistake, including characteristics such as being altruistic within the broad trait of agreeableness.
More recent research has shown that (a) compassion and politeness are two separate aspects of agreeableness, (b) the compassion
dimension is more related to honesty and humility than to agreeableness, and (c) agreeableness can be distinguished from giver values.
Throughout the book, I’ve taken care to focus primarily on studies that were explicitly designed to investigate giving, taking, or matching.
At a few points, though, I have used studies of agreeableness to capture givers in places where survey items directly reference giving,
like “I love to help others.”
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