The volume New Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption, edited by BSSRO, provides a valuable collection of survey pieces on some of the most relevant issues relating to corruption research. Due to the different backgrounds of the editors – one an economist doing lab-based experimental research on corruption and the other a political scientist conducting field-based experimental research on corruption - the volume relies on contributions from both economists and political scientists, doing research on corruption either in the lab or in the field.

The starting point of the volume was the awareness that while corruption studies relying on cross-country data have increased our understanding of the relationship between corruption and important country aggregates, the applicability of these findings to the design of anti-corruption policies is severely limited by measurement and identification problems.1 In the last decade, however, we have witnessed the emergence of an increasing number of studies able to address these problems through the use of experimental methods.

As a result, our understanding of both how corruption occurs and how potentially corrupt individuals may respond to different sets of monetary and non-monetary incentives has significantly widened.

This volume provides an overview of this recent literature; half of the chapters are devoted to laboratory studies and the remaining half is devoted to field studies.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

An experiment research is a research situation where at least one independent variable, called the experimental variable, is deliberately manipulated or varied by the researcher. The purpose of experimental research is to study cause and effect relationships

The official journal of the BSSRO RESEARCH UNIT

The primary goal of Experimental Research is to publish original research papers on all aspects of experimental biology of the eye and ocular tissues that seek to define the mechanisms of normal function and/or disease. Studies of ocular tissues that encompass the disciplines of cell biology,

developmental biology, genetics, molecular biology,physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, immunology or microbiology are most welcomed. Manuscripts that are purely clinical or in a surgical area of ophthalmology are not appropriate for submission to Experimental Research and if received will be returned without review.

Research areas include:

• Production and circulation of ocular fluids and the dysfunction of these pathways underlying ocular disease
• Angiogenesis, neovascularisation and regulation of blood flow in the eye in health and disease
• Cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics of the eye or eye tissue
• Developmental and regenerative biology of the eye

• Human and molecular genetics studies of inherited eye diseases
• Gene therapy and neuroprotection targeted at preventing inherited ocular diseases
• Neural and general physiology of the visual process

Founded in 1966, Experimental Brain Research publishes original contributions on many aspects of experimental research of the central and peripheral nervous system. The focus is on molecular, physiology, behavior, neurochemistry, developmental, cellular and molecular neurobiology, and experimental pathology relevant to general problems of cerebral function. The journal publishes original papers, reviews, and mini-reviews.

Types of affective instruments:

1. self-reports of an individual’s beliefs, perceptions, or feelings about self, others, and a variety of activities, institutions, and situations values tests
2. measure the relative strength of an individual’s valuing of theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political, and religious values personality inventories
3. an individual’s self-report measuring how behaviors characteristic of defined personality traits describe that individual