LONDON, June 4: Can hormones also affect our morality? A new study says they can -- with findings that high levels of testosterone - the male sex hormone - make people more prone to corruption.
Researchers from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, also found that human beings may be naturally predisposed to corruption, Daily Mail reported.
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They had set out to discover the truth behind John Dalberg-Acton's famous saying that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
Corruption, it was decided, was defined as the breaking of an accepted social contract for personal advancement or reward.
The team randomly selected 718 business students to take part in the study.
The volunteers were asked to play two variations of a classic social experiment known as 'the dictator game'.
In the first variation, 162 randomly-selected business students were named 'leaders' and each was assigned between one and three 'followers'.
The leaders were given an amount of money and asked to distribute it around their group, as evenly or unevenly as they liked.
