Transparency reduces bribery by shaping beliefs in a public goods experiment with corruption opportunities.

Sci Rep · 2025 · PMC12216746 · PMID 40596076

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weakly significantp -value = 0.093so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Regarding beliefs about the probability of bribe acceptance, the lagged gap between the stated belief and the actual value ( p ) is only weakly significant in the Feedback specification ( p -value = 0.093).

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