Major personality traits and regulations of social behavior: Cheaters are not the same as the reckless, and you need to know who you’re dealing with

•We compare both Big-5 and HEXCO traits associated with social rule violation.•HEXACO traits associate more clearly and as predicted with behavior reports.•Specifically, honesty/humility relates to violations of social contracts.•Specifically, conscientiousness relates to violations of precaution rules.•People use these strategy/response associations to guide expectations about others.