Between the yin of devoted love and the yang of bestiality lies the curious jumble of human behaviour reported in a monograph called A Case Study of Preferential Bestiality, published two years ago in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. Psychologists ML Lalumiere [pictured here], of the University of Lethbridge, Canada, and CM Earls, Montreal University, take us […]
Tag: horses
Horvath: Like horseflies, like Vikings
Dr Gábor Horváth [pictured here], who discovered that white horses attract fewer flies (described here a few months ago), now may have shed light on an old, somewhat related question about Vikings. The study is “On the trail of Vikings with polarized skylight: experimental study of the atmospheric optical prerequisites allowing polarimetric navigation by Viking […]
A Typology of Horse Players
Racetrack players classify horses. John Rosencrance classified the players: “You Can’t Tell the Players Without A Scorecard: A Typology of Horse Players,” John Rosecrance, Deviant Behaviour, vol. 7, 1986, pp. 77–97. Ted McClelland later built on that work and his own observations to produce a book called Horseplayers: Life at the Track.
Organizational Psychology with horses
Human/Horse interaction – “… has now reached organizations in the form of coaching, training or corporate away-days through what is loosely termed ‘the way of the horse’.” explains Dr. Andreas Liefooghe, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, who has an academic interest in horses. Focussing especially on the […]