This work addresses Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Adjustment Day as a satirical critique of the political radicalization USA and warning about dangerous ideological effects narratives may have on our posthumanist understanding reality. To reach his purposes, novelist combines three stylistic strategies. First, he creates story that exposes condition American politics, dangers radicalized correctness,...

Animal conflicts are influenced by social experience such that a previous winning experience increases the probability of winning the next agonistic interaction, whereas a previous losing experience has the opposite effect. Since androgens respond to social interactions, increasing in winners and decreasing in losers, we hypothesized that socially induced transient changes in androgen levels co...

Contest theory predicts the evolution of a stable mixture of different strategies for fighting. Here, we investigate the possibility that stable between-individual differences in startle-response durations influence fighting ability or 'resource-holding potential' (RHP) in the beadlet sea anemone, Actinia equina. Both winners and losers showed significant repeatability of pre-fight startle-resp...