Month: September 2019

Common facial expressions of emotion have distinctive patterns of facial muscle movements that are culturally similar among humans, and perceiving these expressions is associated with stereotypical gaze allocation at local facial regions that are characteristic for each expression, such as eyes in angry faces. It is, however, unclear to what extent this ‘universality’ view can…Continue Reading Viewing heterospecific facial expressions: an eye-tracking study of human and monkey viewers

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

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