Weather experiences are currently surprisingly under-explored and under-theorised in sociology and sport sociology, despite the importance of weather in both routine, everyday life and in recreational sporting and physical-cultural contexts. To address this lacuna, here we examine the lived experience of weather, including ‘weather work’ and ‘weather learning’, in our specific physical-cultural worlds of distance-running,…Continue Reading Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon
Day: September 4, 2019
Repeatable glucocorticoid expression is associated with behavioural syndromes in males but not females in a wild primate
Behavioural syndromes are a well-established phenomenon in human and non-human animal behavioural ecology. However, the mechanisms that lead to correlations among behaviours and individual consistency in their expression at the apparent expense of behavioural plasticity remain unclear. The ‘state-dependent’ hypothesis posits that inter-individual variation in behaviour arises from inter-individual variation in state and that the…Continue Reading Repeatable glucocorticoid expression is associated with behavioural syndromes in males but not females in a wild primate