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Benjamin E. Hilbig is affiliated with the University of Koblenz and Landau in Germany. Their academic work centers predominantly on psychology and social sciences, with particular emphasis on clinical psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's research explores several main topics, including personality traits and psychology, personality disorders and psychopathology, social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, experimental behavioral economics studies, behavioral health and interventions, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Benjamin E. Hilbig has contributed multiple recent papers to the field. Some of these include:

  • The Nomological Net of the HEXACO Model of Personality: A Large-Scale Meta-Analytic Investigation, 2020, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • lab.js: A free, open, online study builder, 2021, published in Behavior Research Methods
  • Economic Games: An Introduction and Guide for Research, 2021, published in Collabra Psychology
  • Stability and Change: The Dark Factor of Personality Shapes Dark Traits, 2020, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Themes of the dark core of personality., 2021, published in Psychological Assessment

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors. These include Morten Moshagen, Ingo Zettler, Isabel Thielmann, Luisa K. Horsten, and Martina Bader.

Benjamin E. Hilbig has published across various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Personality, Journal of Research in Personality, Current Opinion in Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Behavior Research Methods.

Best Publications

  • The dark core of personality.

    Morten Moshagen;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • Multinomial processing tree models: A review of the literature.

    Edgar Erdfelder;Tina-Sarah Auer;Benjamin E. Hilbig;André Aßfalg

  • Pillars of cooperation: Honesty-Humility, social value orientations, and economic behavior

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • Personality and prosocial behavior: linking basic traits and social value orientations.

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Andreas Glöckner;Ingo Zettler

  • Trust: An integrative review from a person–situation perspective.

    Isabel Thielmann;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • It takes two : Honesty-humility and agreeableness differentially predict active versus reactive cooperation

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  • The Nomological Net of the HEXACO Model of Personality: A Large-Scale Meta-Analytic Investigation.

    Ingo Zettler;Isabel Thielmann;Benjamin E Hilbig;Morten Moshagen

  • Reaction time effects in lab- versus Web-based research: Experimental evidence.

    Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Honesty-Humility and a person-situation-interaction at work

    Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Faktorenstruktur, psychometrische Eigenschaften und Messinvarianz der deutschsprachigen Version des 60- Item HEXACO Persönlichkeitsinventars

    Morten Moshagen;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • lab.js: A free, open, online study builder.

    Felix Henninger;Yury Shevchenko;Ulf K. Mertens;Pascal J. Kieslich

  • When the cat’s away, some mice will play: A basic trait account of dishonest behavior

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler

  • Personality, punishment, and public-goods: Strategic shifts towards cooperation as a matter of dispositional Honesty-Humility

    Benjamin E. Hilbig;Ingo Zettler;Timo Heydasch

  • Rethinking Trait Conceptions of Social Desirability Scales Impression Management as an Expression of Honesty-Humility

    Reinout E. de Vries;Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Dissecting work commitment: the role of Machiavellianism

    Ingo Zettler;Niklas Friedrich;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Sad, thus true: negativity bias in judgments of truth

    Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Measuring the Dark Core of Personality

    Morten Moshagen;Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • Who Lies? A Large-Scale Reanalysis Linking Basic Personality Traits to Unethical Decision Making

    Daniel W. Heck;Isabel Thielmann;Morten Moshagen;Benjamin E. Hilbig

  • What is adaptive about adaptive decision making? A parallel constraint satisfaction account

    Andreas Glöckner;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Marc Jekel

  • Two sides of one coin: Honesty–Humility and situational factors mutually shape social dilemma decision making

    Ingo Zettler;Benjamin E. Hilbig;Timo Heydasch

  • Trust in me, trust in you: A social projection account of the link between personality, cooperativeness, and trustworthiness expectations

    Isabel Thielmann;Benjamin E. Hilbig

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingo Zettler
Ingo Zettler University of Copenhagen
Morten Moshagen
Morten Moshagen University of Ulm
Edgar Erdfelder
Edgar Erdfelder University of Mannheim
Reinout E. de Vries
Reinout E. de Vries Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael C. Ashton
Michael C. Ashton Brock University
Kibeom Lee
Kibeom Lee University of Calgary
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Johannes Zimmermann
Johannes Zimmermann University of Kassel
Antonio Chirumbolo
Antonio Chirumbolo Sapienza University of Rome
Marco Perugini
Marco Perugini University of Milano-Bicocca

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