Only three personality factors are fully replicable across languages: Reply to Ashton and Lee

We reply to Ashton and Lee’s (2010) comments on our paper on the cross-cultural replicability of trait factors (De Raad et al., 2010). More specifically, we comment on the interpretation of congruence coefficients, the distinction between Agreeableness and Honesty–Humility in three languages, and the inclusion of a lexical study that has a different six-factor structure. In our view, none of the arguments given in Ashton and Lee’s paper compels a change in our conclusion, based on the extensive findings of our paper, that only three factors are fully replicable across languages.