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Having dispositional insight allows people to accurately process information about personality traits and their behavioral expressions in different situations. Dispositional insight may be especially important for people who, in their interaction with other people, have to help, judge, or manage them. In this study, we investigated the relations of dispositional insight with HEXACO personality and intelligence using a sample of 1330 undergraduate students. Dispositional insight was measured with the 78-item version of the Dispositional Insight Test (DIT), which is a modified version of the Revised Interpersonal Judgment Inventory (R-IJI), and which contains 13 items for each of the HEXACO traits. In our study, the DIT showed very strongly relations to cognitive ability (as measured with the ICAR) but—apart from a weak to moderate positive relation with honesty-humility—only very weak relations with HEXACO personality …