ARE WE SOCIALLY CORRUPT? SOCIAL NORMS OF CORRUPTION SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY!

Corruption is defined as unethical activity by persons in positions of authority, such as executives or government officials. Giving or receiving bribes or improper gifts, double-dealing, under-the-table deals, influencing elections, diverting cash, laundering money, and scamming investors are all examples of corruption that everyone knows.

Do you know? There is a corruption known as social corruption. Learn How psychology defines corruption.

Psychologists say that:

  1. If you are in a hotel or restaurant, and you put more sugar or milk in your tea than you do at home… then you have a predisposition to corruption.
  2. If you use more tissues, soap or perfume, in the restaurant or public place than you do at home .. then if you have the opportunity to embezzle, you will embezzle.
  3. If you serve yourself more food that you can devour at weddings and open buffets just because someone else will pay the bill.. this is proof that if you had the opportunity to eat public money, you would.
  4. If you usually skip people in queues, you will have the ability to climb on the shoulders of others to reach power.
  5. If you consider that what you collect from the street of money and other things is your right .. then you have signs of thief.
  6. If you (usually) care about knowing a popular last name instead of a first name.. you are a racist and would likely help people just because of their origins. You also care about people, not ideas and achievements.
  7. If you violate the traffic instructions, and you have no regard for traffic lights… you have a readiness for all transgressions, even if innocent people fall into them.

Fighting corruption starts from the self. Let’s try to be distinguished people wherever we are, and remember that honesty is what you do between you and yourself and not just what you do in the presence of people. Fighting corruption starts with the self.

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