S.T. Dzhaneryan, D.I. Gvozdeva, I.N. Astafyeva, Understanding of the Causes of Bribery by Students with Various Types of Attitude to Bribery, The Social Sciences, Volume 11,Issue 27, 2016, Pages 6459-6464, ISSN 1818-5800, sscience.2016.6459.6464, (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6459.6464) Abstract: This study presents the results of the research of a conative component (causes and psychological features of a bribe giver and a bribe-taker represented by a subject) in a sense attitude to bribery of students. Sense attitude to bribery (bribe) is defined as a sustainable and being perceived as a means to achieve a goal psychological attitude of a subject when a bribe is presented in his/her mind as occupying the place of a purpose or a means in the realization by the subject of his/her particular needs and values. It is shown that in the representation of students and depending on the type of their attitude to the bribery different causes of bribery are distinguished, including the psychological features of a bribe giver and taker. Keywords: causes of bribery;connotative component of an attitude;sense attitude;Bribery;psychological features of a bribe-giver and taker;students