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About twenty years have passed since the six personality factors in the HEXACO model (ie, Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to experience) first appeared in the literature (Ashton & Lee, 2001; Ashton, Lee, & Son, 2000; Hahn, Lee, & Ashton, 1999). As recounted by Saucier (2019), before the advent of the HEXACO model, personality researchers were inclined to believe that a maximum set of five personality factors were consistently recovered from lexical studies of personality structure (eg, Goldberg, 1990). A review of these standard lexical studies as well as subsequent ones, however, generally supports the idea that not just five but six factors emerge consistently from these studies (Ashton, Lee, Perugini, et al., 2004; Lee & Ashton, 2008). The additional sixth factor, which contrasts sincerity, integrity, decency, and trustworthiness with boastfulness …