Ma and Yan. Int J Psychol Psychoanal 2018, 4:033 ISSN: 2572-4037 International Journal of Psychology and Psychoanalysis Volume 4 | Issue 2 DOI: 10.23937/2572-4037.1510033 Open Access Citaon: Ma Q, Yan M (2018) Psychological, Behavioral, and Economic Perspecves on Corrupon. Int J Psychol Psychoanal 4:033. doi.org/10.23937/2572-4037.1510033 Accepted: October 16, 2018: Published: October 18, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Ma Q, et al. This is an open-access arcle distributed under the terms of the Creave Commons Aribuon License, which permits unrestricted use, distribuon, and reproducon in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Ma and Yan. Int J Psychol Psychoanal 2018, 4:033 • Page 1 of 4 • Psychological, Behavioral, and Economic Perspecves on Corrupon Qingguo Ma * and Min Yan Neuromanagement Lab, Zhejiang University, P.R. China *Corresponding author: Qingguo Ma, Neuromanagement Lab, School of Management, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, 310027 Hangzhou, China, Tel: +86-571-87952790 Abstract With the development and transformation of China’s econ- omy, “anti-corruption” has become the top priority of the Communist Party of China in recent years. Corruption is a kind of unethical behavior that the public power loss the public nature because of private using, it deviates from the value of public power and the goals of the value. Here, we review both experimental evidences documenting acts of small corruption and recent evolutionary cognitive models based on surveys of corruption. These studies show that corruption and the crime of corruption is a phased develop- ment process based on psychological development theory and game theory. This unethical behavior can be a crime by the unconscious cognitive processes begins with the sim- ple reciprocity behavior to slip into large illegal acts or be a transition process by the subject of corruption from the initial compliance with corrupt group of standards or requirements to becoming unconscious acts of corruption or norm. These researches present different commentary and results, and sometimes even contradictory views. Keywords Cognitive science, Behavioral economics, Corruption, Cor- rupt criminal, Unethical behavior concerned, an-corrupon is a focus issue of the work of the government since the reform and opening up, especially in recent years. The data showed that from November 2007 to June 2012, the discipline inspecon and supervision organs filed with 643759 cases, closed 639068 cases, give disciplinary sancons to 668429 per- sons, 24584 persons as suspected of a crime were trans- ferred to judicial organs for handling, the invesgang cases of commercial bribery were 81391, the amount involved in these cases was 222.03 billion yuan (close to 3.38 billion US dollar) [4]. In 2014, the government an- nounced to be used without penalty area, full coverage, zero tolerance atude, and severely punish corrupt el- ements. From the individual level, the corrupon is a kind of unethical behavior, and the economic crimes caused by corrupon (Crime of corrupon) is oſten a kind of be- havior that public power loss the public nature because of the non-public use, it deviates from the foundaon value of the public power and the goal of the value [5]. The crime of corrupon is described as one or a series of implementaon of intenonal crime of a government officer that “embezzles or misappropriates to violate the property” or “trading the power” or “abuse of pow- er” and so on [6]. The whole process on the ny unconscious corrup- on rise to criminal behavior is an issue that academic researchers pay close aenon to research from the aspects of jurisprudence, criminology, social science, psychology and so on. These important social science disciplines in commentary corrupon and the crime of corrupon has many different on main theorecal mechanism, many theorecal assumpons are based on raonal man, such as economic man hypothesis, Becker REVIEW ARTICLE Check for updates Introducon Corrupon, a common system problem, is the most common phenomenon especially in the developing and transforming of social system [1,2]. With the connuous development of China’s economy, efforts of economic system reform have been stepped up. While China is experiencing unprecedented economic development, there is inevitably experiencing corrupon in the en- suing that have become increasingly rampant in the government and enterprises and instuons at all lev- els as white-collar economic crime [1,3]. In China, eco- nomic crime and corrupon crimes have been widely
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