Amanda Sharkey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1699106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Sharkey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharkey |
| SIGNATURE | SHARKEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2432-1135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Could a robot feel pain
Questions about robots feeling pain are important because the experience of pain implies sentience and the ability to suffer. Pain is not the same as nociception, a reflex response to an aversive stimulus. The experience of pain in others has to be inferred. Danaher’s (Sci Eng Ethics 26(4):2023–2049, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00119-x ) ‘ethical behaviourist’ account claims that if a robot behaves in the same way as an animal that i…
Organizational Scarring, Legal Consciousness, and the Diffusion of Local Government Litigation Against Opioid Manufacturers
Between 2017 and 2020, local government attorneys’ offices in the United States filed a surge of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Aimed at recovering the costs of the opioid epidemic, this “affirmative litigation” was a novel action for most of them. Participation necessitated a tectonic shift in how they conceptualized their roles vis-à-vis the law. To understand how this occurred, we use a mixed-methods approa…
Same Policy, No Standardized Outcome
Standardized tests were introduced to U.S. higher education as systematic, neutral measures of students' intellect. Over time, they became central gatekeeping tools in the college admissions process. However, these tests have faced growing criticism for reinforcing inequality and privileging structurally advantaged students, leading many colleges to eliminate them as admissions requirements. In this study, we extend insights from institutional th…
The Impact of Mandated Pay Gap Transparency on Firms’ Reputations as Employers
Mandated gender wage gap disclosure laws are an increasingly popular but relatively untested solution to gender-based compensation inequalities. Scholars and policymakers alike have argued that disclosure will lead to greater social accountability—either reputational harm for firms revealing large disparities or benefit for more-egalitarian organizations. Yet little research has directly tested this central assumption. We advance understanding of…
We need to talk about deception in social robotics
Although some authors claim that deception requires intention, we argue that there can be deception in social robotics, whether or not it is intended. By focusing on the deceived rather than the deceiver, we propose that false beliefs can be created in the absence of intention. Supporting evidence is found in both human and animal examples. Instead of assuming that deception is wrong only when carried out to benefit the deceiver, we propose that …
Unequal Hard Times
Sarah Thébaud, Amanda J. Sharkey Sociological Science, January 6, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a1 Abstract Prior work finds mixed evidence of gender bias in lenders’ willingness to approve loans to entrepreneurs during normal macroeconomic conditions
Categories and Organizational Status
Extant research in organizational and economic sociology posits that organizations derive status from their prior demonstrations of quality, as well as their affiliations with high-status alters. Yet there are also indications that organizations may acquire status by virtue of their membership in salient social categories that are themselves status valued. In this article, the author explicitly theorizes and measure the concept of categorical sta…
Can Ratings Have Indirect Effects? Evidence from the Organizational Response to Peers’ Environmental Ratings
Organizations are increasingly subject to rating and ranking by third-party evaluators. Research in this area tends to emphasize the direct effects of ratings systems that occur when ratings give key audiences, such as consumers or investors, more information about a rated firm. Yet, ratings systems may also indirectly influence organizations when the collective presence of more rated peers alters the broader institutional and competitive milieu.…
Entrepreneurship as a Mobility Process
We advance a theory of how organizational characteristics, in particular the structure of opportunity within organizations, shape the decision to become an entrepreneur. Established organizations play an important yet understudied role in the entrepreneurial process, because they shape the environment within which individuals may choose to enter self-employment. Yet, despite the fact that sociologists have long recognized that inequality within o…
The Perils of False Certainty
The crying shame of robot nannies
Childcare robots are being manufactured and developed with the long term aim of creating surrogate carers. While total childcare is not yet being promoted, there are indications that it is ‘on the cards’. We examine recent research and developments in childcare robots and speculate on progress over the coming years by extrapolating from other ongoing robotics work. Our main aim is to raise ethical questions about the part or full-time replacement…
Granny and the robots
Contextual constraints and vocabulary acquisition
Factors affecting the success of referential communication
Granny and the robots
Categories and Organizational Status
Extant research in organizational and economic sociology posits that organizations derive status from their prior demonstrations of quality, as well as their affiliations with high-status alters. Yet there are also indications that organizations may acquire status by virtue of their membership in salient social categories that are themselves status valued. In this article, the author explicitly theorizes and measure the concept of categorical sta…
Can Ratings Have Indirect Effects? Evidence from the Organizational Response to Peers’ Environmental Ratings
Organizations are increasingly subject to rating and ranking by third-party evaluators. Research in this area tends to emphasize the direct effects of ratings systems that occur when ratings give key audiences, such as consumers or investors, more information about a rated firm. Yet, ratings systems may also indirectly influence organizations when the collective presence of more rated peers alters the broader institutional and competitive milieu.…
We need to talk about deception in social robotics
Although some authors claim that deception requires intention, we argue that there can be deception in social robotics, whether or not it is intended. By focusing on the deceived rather than the deceiver, we propose that false beliefs can be created in the absence of intention. Supporting evidence is found in both human and animal examples. Instead of assuming that deception is wrong only when carried out to benefit the deceiver, we propose that …
Entrepreneurship as a Mobility Process
We advance a theory of how organizational characteristics, in particular the structure of opportunity within organizations, shape the decision to become an entrepreneur. Established organizations play an important yet understudied role in the entrepreneurial process, because they shape the environment within which individuals may choose to enter self-employment. Yet, despite the fact that sociologists have long recognized that inequality within o…
Unequal Hard Times
Sarah Thébaud, Amanda J. Sharkey Sociological Science, January 6, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a1 Abstract Prior work finds mixed evidence of gender bias in lenders’ willingness to approve loans to entrepreneurs during normal macroeconomic conditions
The Perils of False Certainty
Same Policy, No Standardized Outcome
Standardized tests were introduced to U.S. higher education as systematic, neutral measures of students' intellect. Over time, they became central gatekeeping tools in the college admissions process. However, these tests have faced growing criticism for reinforcing inequality and privileging structurally advantaged students, leading many colleges to eliminate them as admissions requirements. In this study, we extend insights from institutional th…
Factors affecting the success of referential communication
Contextual constraints and vocabulary acquisition
The crying shame of robot nannies
Childcare robots are being manufactured and developed with the long term aim of creating surrogate carers. While total childcare is not yet being promoted, there are indications that it is ‘on the cards’. We examine recent research and developments in childcare robots and speculate on progress over the coming years by extrapolating from other ongoing robotics work. Our main aim is to raise ethical questions about the part or full-time replacement…
Granny and the robots
The Perils of False Certainty
Categories and Organizational Status
Extant research in organizational and economic sociology posits that organizations derive status from their prior demonstrations of quality, as well as their affiliations with high-status alters. Yet there are also indications that organizations may acquire status by virtue of their membership in salient social categories that are themselves status valued. In this article, the author explicitly theorizes and measure the concept of categorical sta…
Can Ratings Have Indirect Effects? Evidence from the Organizational Response to Peers’ Environmental Ratings
Organizations are increasingly subject to rating and ranking by third-party evaluators. Research in this area tends to emphasize the direct effects of ratings systems that occur when ratings give key audiences, such as consumers or investors, more information about a rated firm. Yet, ratings systems may also indirectly influence organizations when the collective presence of more rated peers alters the broader institutional and competitive milieu.…
Entrepreneurship as a Mobility Process
We advance a theory of how organizational characteristics, in particular the structure of opportunity within organizations, shape the decision to become an entrepreneur. Established organizations play an important yet understudied role in the entrepreneurial process, because they shape the environment within which individuals may choose to enter self-employment. Yet, despite the fact that sociologists have long recognized that inequality within o…
Unequal Hard Times
Sarah Thébaud, Amanda J. Sharkey Sociological Science, January 6, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a1 Abstract Prior work finds mixed evidence of gender bias in lenders’ willingness to approve loans to entrepreneurs during normal macroeconomic conditions
We need to talk about deception in social robotics
Although some authors claim that deception requires intention, we argue that there can be deception in social robotics, whether or not it is intended. By focusing on the deceived rather than the deceiver, we propose that false beliefs can be created in the absence of intention. Supporting evidence is found in both human and animal examples. Instead of assuming that deception is wrong only when carried out to benefit the deceiver, we propose that …
The Impact of Mandated Pay Gap Transparency on Firms’ Reputations as Employers
Mandated gender wage gap disclosure laws are an increasingly popular but relatively untested solution to gender-based compensation inequalities. Scholars and policymakers alike have argued that disclosure will lead to greater social accountability—either reputational harm for firms revealing large disparities or benefit for more-egalitarian organizations. Yet little research has directly tested this central assumption. We advance understanding of…
Could a robot feel pain
Questions about robots feeling pain are important because the experience of pain implies sentience and the ability to suffer. Pain is not the same as nociception, a reflex response to an aversive stimulus. The experience of pain in others has to be inferred. Danaher’s (Sci Eng Ethics 26(4):2023–2049, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00119-x ) ‘ethical behaviourist’ account claims that if a robot behaves in the same way as an animal that i…
Organizational Scarring, Legal Consciousness, and the Diffusion of Local Government Litigation Against Opioid Manufacturers
Between 2017 and 2020, local government attorneys’ offices in the United States filed a surge of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Aimed at recovering the costs of the opioid epidemic, this “affirmative litigation” was a novel action for most of them. Participation necessitated a tectonic shift in how they conceptualized their roles vis-à-vis the law. To understand how this occurred, we use a mixed-methods approa…
Same Policy, No Standardized Outcome
Standardized tests were introduced to U.S. higher education as systematic, neutral measures of students' intellect. Over time, they became central gatekeeping tools in the college admissions process. However, these tests have faced growing criticism for reinforcing inequality and privileging structurally advantaged students, leading many colleges to eliminate them as admissions requirements. In this study, we extend insights from institutional th…
Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Robot (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Deception (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)