2014年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2014年のイグノーベル賞は、ホッキョクグマに扮した人間にトナカイがどう反応するか、醜い絵と美しい絵を見ながら痛みを受けたときの差の測定、犬は排泄時に体を地磁気の南北軸に合わせるという記録、売春と違法薬物をGDPに算入して経済規模を増やしたことなど全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
ホッキョクグマに扮した人間にトナカイがどう反応するか
: Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears.
- 受賞者
- : Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl
- 分野
- 北極科学部門
醜い絵と美しい絵を見ながら痛みを受けたときの差の測定
: Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea, for measuring the relative pain people suffer while looking at an ugly painting, rather than a pretty painting, while being shot [in the hand] by a powerful laser beam.
- 受賞者
- : Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea
- 分野
- 芸術部門
犬は排泄時に体を地磁気の南北軸に合わせるという記録
: Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda, for carefully documenting that when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis with Earth’s north-south geomagnetic field lines.
- 受賞者
- : Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda
- 分野
- 生物学部門
売春と違法薬物をGDPに算入して経済規模を増やしたこと
: ISTAT — the Italian government’s National Institute of Statistics, for proudly taking the lead in fulfilling the European Union mandate for each country to increase the official size of its national economy by including revenues from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and all other unlawful financial transactions between willing participants.
- 受賞者
- : ISTAT — the Italian government’s National Institute of Statistics
- 分野
- 経済学部門
止まらない鼻血を塩漬け豚肉で詰めて止める治療
: Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin, for treating “uncontrollable” nosebleeds, using the method of nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork.
- 受賞者
- : Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin
- 分野
- 医学部門
トーストにイエスの顔を見る人の脳内で起きていること
: Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, and Kang Lee, for trying to understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast.
- 受賞者
- : Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, and Kang Lee
- 分野
- 神経科学部門
乳児の便から取った乳酸菌をソーセージの発酵に使う研究
: Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofré, Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich, and Margarita Garriga, for their study titled “Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages.”
- 受賞者
- : Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofré, Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich, and Margarita Garriga
- 分野
- 栄養学部門
バナナの皮で滑るときの摩擦係数の測定
: Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that’s on the floor.
- 受賞者
- : Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai
- 分野
- 物理学部門
夜型の人ほど自己愛が強く操作的だという証拠の収集
: Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.
- 受賞者
- : Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons
- 分野
- 心理学部門
猫を飼うことが人の精神に危険かどうかの調査
: Jaroslav Flegr, Jan Havlíček and Jitka Hanušova-Lindova, and to David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried, for investigating whether it is mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat.
- 受賞者
- : Jaroslav Flegr, Jan Havlíček and Jitka Hanušova-Lindova, and to David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried
- 分野
- 公衆衛生部門