Behaving Badly Research Articles

Judges Behaving Badly: Judicial Misconduct and a Threat to Rights

Judges Behaving Badly: Judicial Misconduct and a Threat to Rights

Priests Behaving Badly: The Problem of Scandal in the Early Modern Catholic Church

Priests Behaving Badly: The Problem of Scandal in the Early Modern Catholic Church

Toby Walsh, "Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI"

Toby Walsh, "Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI"

Toby Walsh (2022) Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI. Collingwood: La Trobe University Press and Black Inc Books

Nicolas Korpela reviews Machines Behaving Badly by Toby Walsh

Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America. By Monica D. Fitzgerald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv + 177 pp. $49.99 cloth.

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Leadership Knowingly Behaving Badly

Leadership Knowingly Behaving Badly

Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France by Karen E. Carter

Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France by Karen E. Carter

Sigmoids Behaving Badly: Why They Usually Cannot Predict the Future as Well as They Seem to Promise

Sigmoids (AKA s-curves or logistic curves) are commonly used in a diverse spectrum of disciplines as models for time-varying phenomena showing initial acceleration followed by slowing: technology diffusion, cumulative cases of an epidemic, population growth towards a carrying capacity, etc. Existing work demonstrates that retrospective fit of data is often impressive. We show that in time series data, the future fit tends to be poor unless the data covers the entire range from before to after the inflection point. We discuss the theoretical reasons for this: the growth data provides little information about the damping term (and vice-versa). As a consequence, forecasting with sigmoids tends to be very unreliable. We suggest some practical approaches to improving the viability of forecasting sigmoid models.

Karen E. Carter. Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France.

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Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France. By Karen E. Carter. McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion: Series 2, volume 84. Edited by Donald Harman Akenson. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+296. $120.00 (cloth); $32.95 (paper).

<i>Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France</i>. By Karen E. Carter. McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion: Series 2, volume 84. Edited by Donald Harman Akenson. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv+296. $120.00 (cloth); $32.95 (paper).

Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France. By Karen E. Carter. Studies in the History of Religion 2.84. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. xiv + 312 pp. $32.95 paper.

Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France. By Karen E. Carter. Studies in the History of Religion 2.84. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. xiv + 312 pp. $32.95 paper. - Volume 89 Issue 2

Karen E. Carter, Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France

Karen E. Carter, <i>Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France</i>

Brands Behaving Badly

This brief commentary succinctly analyzes the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in Matal v. Tam and Iancu v. Brunetti, and then challenges the reader to balance the importance of free speech in commerce against the value of diversity in society.

Brokers Behaving Badly

Broker behavior is a consequential, largely-uncharted topic; an exciting arena for future research. We know network brokerage is associated with success, but we worry about collateral damage to exp...

Gaslighting by Crowd

Most psychological literature on gaslighting focuses on it as a dyadic phenomenon occurring primarily in marriage and family relationships. In my analysis, I will extend recent fruitful philosophical engagement with gaslighting (Abramson, “Turning up the Lights on Gaslighting” [2014]; McKinnon, “Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice” [2017]; Ruiz, “Spectral Phenomenologies” [2014]) by arguing that gaslighting, particularly gaslighting that occurs in more public spaces like the workplace, relies upon external reinforcement for its success. I will ground this study in an analysis of the film Gaslight, for which the phenomenon is named, and in the course of the analysis will focus on a paradox of this kind of gaslighting: it wreaks significant epistemic and moral damages largely through small, often invisible actions that have power through their accumulation and reinforcement.

“Deterrent Effect and So Forth and So On:” Leopold Bloom Behaving Badly

“Deterrent Effect and So Forth and So On:” Leopold Bloom Behaving Badly

Girls Behaving Badly? Race, Gender, and Subjective Evaluation in the Discipline of African American Girls

School disciplinary processes are an important mechanism of inequality in education. Most prior research in this area focuses on the significantly higher rates of punishment among African American boys, but in this article, we turn our attention to the discipline of African American girls. Using advanced multilevel models and a longitudinal data set of detailed school discipline records, we analyze interactions between race and gender on office referrals. The results show troubling and significant disparities in the punishment of African American girls. Controlling for background variables, black girls are three times more likely than white girls to receive an office referral; this difference is substantially wider than the gap between black boys and white boys. Moreover, black girls receive disproportionate referrals for infractions such as disruptive behavior, dress code violations, disobedience, and aggressive behavior. We argue that these infractions are subjective and influenced by gendered interpretations. Using the framework of intersectionality, we propose that school discipline penalizes African American girls for behaviors perceived to transgress normative standards of femininity.

People Behaving Badly, or Can We Get an Adult in the Room?

Shut Up! (self-published 2016; ISBN 978-1-5333-8233-7) is a self-published book about a war between authors Megan Fox and Kevin DuJan and the Orland Park Public Library (OPPL)—except mostly, it isn’t. That modest story really doesn’t require 651 pages. On this topic, in the words attributed to Ambrose Bierce, “The covers of this book are too far apart.”What does fill the pages, then? There are many words of praise for people hailed as “great conservatives, writers, and pundits” such as Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Andrew Breitbart (to whom the book is dedicated). On the other hand, the authors believe that even the people they describe as good, honest, unfailingly truth-seeking conservative talk radio hosts are just too timid to withstand the oppressive, unscrupulous importunities of the liberal left. Welcome, again, to the culture wars.

Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece

Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece