Predictors of Bribe-Taking: The Role of Bribe Size and Personality

Frontiers in Psychology

Marek A. Vranka¹ 

关键词: morality;    corruption;    bribe-taking;    HEXACO;    reaction times;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01511

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Laboratory studies allow studying the predictors of bribe-taking in a controlled setting. However, presently used laboratory tasks often lack any connection to norm violation or invite participants to role-play. A new experimental task for studying the decision to take a bribe was designed in this study to overcome these problems by embedding the opportunity for bribe-taking in an unrelated task that participants perform. Using this new experimental task, we found that refraining from harming a third party by taking a bribe was associated with lower offered bribes and higher scores of the participants on the honesty-humility scale from the HEXACO personality inventory. A trial-level analysis showed that response times were longer for trials with bribes and even longer for trials in which bribes were accepted. These results suggest that taking a bribe may require overcoming automatic honest response and support the validity of the honesty-humility scale in predicting moral behavior.

【 授权许可】

CC BY