I can explain why we behave badly - or, more accurately, why you think we're behaving badly when, actually, our behaviour is perfectly understandable and logical. To us.
Teachers usually behave badly, they are late, chew gum, talk to deskmates and have to be reprimanded and sent to the headteacher who is also a senior pupil.
He was angry to see his son behave badly at the party.
I get fire insurance on my house and so I behave badly: I deliberately burn the house down to collect on my insurance.
It doesn't mean you can behave badly in class and not be punished.
"My complaint journalists," a friend of mine once said," is not that they behave badly in the course of duty, but their inability to recoil into a human being when it's over."
This suggests two things we probably knew already. One, men behave badly, and two, a lot of women don’t work this out until a few months, or even years, after they’ve cantered down the aisle.
Her poor health once made her behave badly.
Well, consider this: a person who makes the decent, green choice is much more likely to behave badly afterwards, according to researchers at the University of Toronto.
And sometimes when we behave badly, we blame the devil. We say the devil made me do it.
