Psychological Analysis of Corruption: A Review

Abstract

All entities of human society have the same basic needs for pleasure and moral standing while, according to Vygotsky (Russian Psychologist) individuals think, evaluate, analyze, sysnthesize, abstract and select from a socially created fund of psychological artifacts. The motivation to construct new psychological phenomena is generated by social experience, and is socially distributed among classes, genders and ethnic groups. The scope and level of psychological innovation is in this manner collectively determined the lower the culture ranks economic goals, productivity, efficiency, science, the higher it ranks social cohesion, stability and religions, the lower the scope and level of innovation.