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Corruption corrupts

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A cross-cultural experiment involving thousands of people worldwide shows that the prevalence of rule violations in a society, such as tax evasion and fraudulent politics, is detrimental to individuals' intrinsic honesty. See Letter p.496

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Figure 1: Rule violations across the globe.

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  1. Shaul Shalvi is in the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED) and the Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam, 1018WB Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,

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Shalvi, S. Corruption corrupts. Nature 531, 456–457 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17307

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