%A Vranka,Marek A. %A Bahník,Štěpán %D 2018 %J Frontiers in Psychology %C %F %G English %K morality,Corruption,Bribe taking,HEXACO,reaction times %Q %R 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01511 %W %L %M %P %7 %8 2018-September-10 %9 Original Research %# %! Predictors of Bribe Taking %* %< %T Predictors of Bribe-Taking: The Role of Bribe Size and Personality %U https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01511 %V 9 %0 JOURNAL ARTICLE %@ 1664-1078 %X 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.