Small-scale corruption such as bribing has deleterious consequences for millions of people’s daily lives, especially in developing countries, as it undermines institutions and people’s trust in them. In this paper we analyze a lab-in-the-field experiment that provides insight into the salient social costs of bribing participants in an artefactual three-person value-based or arbitrary queue. The salience effects of information are greater in decisions to engage in bribery, but barely significant in queuing procedures. These findings support the argument that, in some contexts, preference for procedural fairness is less prevalent, yet salient awareness campaigns on the social harm caused by antisocial behavior can be effective.