Bribery, an illegal conspiracy between two transactional parties, has a wide range of destructive effects on society. From an interpersonal interaction perspective, we explored how Guanxi (interpersonal relationships, including direct and indirect ones) influences individuals, especially government officials’ bribe-taking probability, using behavioral experiments and questionnaires. The findings suggested that direct Guanxi promoted individuals’ acceptance of bribes (Study 1a), and indirect Guanxi had the same role and effect sizes (Study 1b)...
